236 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. [Mar. 7, 



20. Atherura fasciculata (Shaw) ; Waterhouse, Mainm. ii. 

 p. 470. 



On the 18th of Septemher, 1867, we obtained, by purchase, of 

 the Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris, a single specimen of this species, 

 said to have been received from Saigon. On the 14th of March 

 last Dr. Jerdon brought home with him an example of the same 

 species from Cherra Punji on the Khasya hills, and presented it to 

 the Society. This specimen is now living in the " Small-Mammal 

 House," in company with two of its African allies (A. africana), 

 and serves to prove how very closely these two species resemble each 

 other externally. 



They are very nearly of the same size and form, and much alike 

 in general appearance. But A. fasciculata has the long spines of 

 the back terminated with white, and is generally brighter in colour. 

 Likewise the spines on tbe flanks aud lower belly round the anus 

 are tipped with white. In A. africana they are black, but whitish at 

 their bases. 



21. PHACOCHCERUS ^ELIANI. 



Phacochcerus sclateri of Dr. Gray (Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. vi. 

 p. 190) was founded upon the female ^Elian's Wart-hog (Phaco- 

 chcerus celiani) now living in the Society's Gardens, apparently be- 

 cause the drawing of the head of this animal given in my notice of 

 its arrival (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 2/6) does not quite agree with Ruppell's 

 figure in his 'Zoological Atlas,' tab. 25. Dr. Gray became subse- 

 quently of opinion that this specimen might even be a Sus (op. cit. 

 p. 263). I replied to these remarks in a subsequent number of 

 the 'Annals' (vol. vi. p. 404), and only now refer to them in order 

 to introduce a few additional remarks upon the distinctness of the 

 two known species of Phacochcerus. 



The skeletons of the pair of P. cethiopicus that were purchased 

 by the Society in 1850*, and lived so long in our gardensf, are now 

 in the British Museum. On examining them I find no traces of 

 upper incisors in either skull, but in both of them the lower jaws 

 present alveoli of the two deciduous lower incisors. 



I have likewise, with Mr. Bartlett's assistance, examined the 

 mouths of the fine adult pair of P. cethiopicus now living in the 

 Society's Gardens (presented by the Duke of Edinburgh in May 

 1866), and have found no perceptible traces of incisors either above 

 or below. 



In the spring of this year one of our correspondents deposited in 

 the Society's Gardens four young examples of the same species. I 



two species. The tail in H. longicauda is not longer ; but the transverse pro- 

 cesses are rather broader." 



There can be no longer any doubt, therefore, that we have here a repetition of 

 the frequent case of an animal found in Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, but re- 

 placed in Java by a distinct form. 



* See P. Z. S. 1850, p. 78. pi. xvii. 



t The male died June 22, 1862. the female December 16, 1859. 



