1865.] OF ENTOMOPHAGOUS EDENTATA, 367 
MM. aurita, Hodgson. 
M. pentadactyla (partly), Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 285. 
MM. javanica, Sundevyall, J. ¢. 254, t.4a. f.11; Turner, P. Z. §, 
1851, p. 219? 
Pangolin, Buffon, x. t. 34. 
Hab. India, Himalaya (Hodgson) ; China (Dalmann) ; ? Java 
(Sundevall). 
A small specimen of the species, preserved in spirits in the British 
Museum, may be thus described :—The head ovate, convex above 
and on the sides. The end of the nose, the side of the face, includ- 
ing the orbit, to the back of the ears, the throat, underside of the 
body, and the inside of the legs bald, with a few very slender, elon- 
gated hairs on the front of the chin, The forehead with one scale, 
and five series of scales behind it. The ears large, with a well-de- 
veloped, oblong, nearly flat conch behind ; an oblong prominence for 
a tragus in front of the small auditory aperture. The fore and hind 
legs covered with series of scales down to the base of the toes ; 
the toes united to the claws, The palms of the fore feet and the 
soles of the hind feet hard, callous, well developed. The fore feet 
with five elongated conical claws, which are strongly inflexed on both 
palms; the inner and outer small, then the second and fourth, and 
the centre or third the largest. The hind feet with five short, coni- 
cal, compressed claws; the inner and outer small, the three middle 
larger, the middle one being rather the largest. The skin of the 
back, between the bases of the scales, bald; the lower part of the 
scales and the middle of the scales striated. The tongue elongate, 
exsertile, flat, linear, tapering to the tip, which is rounded. The 
eyelids soft, distinct, not ciliated, but the outer surface entirely 
covered with very short bristles. 
Professor Sundevall, in his Monograph, places considerable re- 
liance on the form of the claws, and on the comparative size and form 
of the claws of the fore and hind feet, as a specific distinction. The 
specimens which I have examined from the same locality seem to 
differ very much in this respect. 
Manis dalmannii was described from specimens from China, which 
looked like the young of M. laticauda. It is probably the same as 
the many-scaled species from India, or at least must be very nearly 
allied to it, more especially as the large size of the ears, which 
caused Hodgson to call it M. aurita, is mentioned. 
Dr. Sundevall states that his M. javanica is from Java, and he 
believes that it is common there; but he describes all the scales as 
fulvescent. I have never seen any Javan or Sumatran specimen 
of that colour. They are always dark brown, while the Indian spe- 
cies is always pale-coloured ; and I am inclined to believe that it 
must have been the Indian species that was described. 
There are two skulls of this species in the British Museum, re- 
ceived from Mr. Hodgson as belonging to his M. aurita ; they are 
very solid, considerably stouter in proportion to their length than 
the skull of M. indica figured by Cuvier, and they have very broad 
nasal bones, which are rounded at the hinder end. 
