368 DR. J. E, GRAY ON THE GENERA AND SPECIES [Apr. 11, 
Professor Sundevall seems inclined to believe that the skeleton of 
Pangolin & courte queue, or, as he quotes it, ‘‘ Pangolin des Indes,” 
figured and described by Cuvier in the ‘Ossemens Fossiles,’ is the 
skeleton of his M. javanica. I think this a mistake. Compare 
the skull with the skull of M. javanica figured by Rapp, which I 
’am assured was taken out of the skin which he figures (which is 
the true M. javanica of this essay). I believe that the M. javanica 
of Sundevall is an Indian and not a Javan species ; and it differs 
from the Indian species figured by Cuvier in the skull bemg shorter 
and broader, as mentioned above. 
*&* Scales horn-coloured, pale; of the back, in eleven or thirteen 
longitudinal series. Tail as long as the body. Ears with only 
a slightly raised edge, without any distinct conch. Phatages. 
3. PHOLIDOTUS INDICUS. 
Pale brown; scales striated at the base; tail more slender than 
the body, tapering to the end, as long as the body without the head ; 
ears not prominent. . 
“Varies in the width of the tail and the curvature of the claw.’”’— 
Sundevall. 
Manis pentadactyla, Linn. 8. N. i. 51; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 
B. M. 285 (partly) ; Gray, Cat. B. M. 188; Turner, P. Z. 8.1851, 
. 219. 
: M. laticauda, Mliger ; Sundevall, J. c. 259. 
M. macroura, Desm. Mamm. 376. 
M. brevicaudata, Tiedem. Zool. i. 497. 
M. brachyura, Erxl. Syst. 98. 
M. crassicaudata, Gray in Griff. A. K.; Rapp, Edent. 16. 
Broad-tailed Manis, Penn. 
Pangolin a courte queue, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 8 (skeleton). 
Hab. Asia—India: Bengal, Madras, Pondicherry, Assam. 
The skull in Cuvier’s figure (Oss. Foss. v. t. 8. f. 2-4) is much 
more slender and less ventricose behind than the skulls of M. dal- 
mannii in the British Museum. The face is represented as being 
about two-fifths the entire length of the head; and the nasal bones 
are narrower and longer. 
In a foetus in spirits in the British Museum, the eyelids are soft, 
the ears are only fringed with a slightly raised edge, and there are a 
few bristles projecting between the scales of the back. 
Mr. MacClelland describes the Manis brachyura of Assam as 
having fifteen longitudinal series of scales, with bristles in pairs pass- 
ing out between the scalés. The lower part of the head and body 
and inside of the legs covered with coarse white hairs (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1839, p. 153). Is this M. dalmannii? 
4, Puouipotus Aarricanus. (PI. XVII.) B.M. 
Pale brown ; scales striated at the base; tail as long as the body, 
tapering to the end. Body and head 30, tail 25 inches. 
