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which were extracted from the skins of two animals from West Africa, 
which are so very much alike in form, and in the number and form of 
the scales and the length of tail, that I should have referred them 
without doubt’ to the same species. The skulls, however, are so 
exceedingly unlike that I believe they might be considered to belong 
to two species, unless the differences arise from a difference of sex, 
which the state of the specimens does not allow me to determine. 
The separate skull (fig. 1) is very ventricose, thin, light, and 
showing the sutures. 
The skull belonging to the complete skeleton (fig. 2) is smaller, 
narrower, more conical, solid, and with the suture much less distinctly 
visible. 
Fig. 2. 
Skull of Manis tricuspis (from the skeleton). 
A foetus of this species, 10 inches long, was noticed by Mr. 
Thompson under the name of M. tetradactylus (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1834, p. 28). 
2. PHOLIDOTUS. 
The fore and hind feet entirely covered with keeled scales; the 
internal claw of the fore foot nearly equal to the outer one, and not 
retracted behind. Scales of the body broad, short. Tail moderate, 
tapering at the end; the central series of caudal scales continued to 
the tip. 4 
Haé. India and Asiatic Islands. 
Manis, 3. Pholidotus, Sundevall, /.c.253; Rapp, Edent. t. 6. f.1, 2, 
* Scales dark brown, in seventeen longitudinal series; the three 
or four series on each side shorter, keeled. Tail as long as 
body and head. Face of skull elongate, nearly as long as 
brain-case. 
