MAMMALS FROM BURMA 949 
to which this arrangement of the scales has been hitherto sup- 
posed to be peculiar (1). The presence or absence of this cha- 
racter is not therefore quite so absolutely diagnostic of the two 
groups of Manis as it has been usually believed to be. It may 
also be noted that the exact converse of this variation, occurring 
in an African Pangolin, is the main character relied upon in 
the description by D." Noack of his Manis hess? (2). 
(1) See Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. IV, p. 193, 1882. 
(?) Zool. J. B. IV, p. 100, 1889. 
