902 MR. H. LTDEKKER ON 



narrow grey line and broad light brown suffusion ; a medial spot 

 ringed with grey at costa ; a terminal series of diffused lunular 

 spots, containing a black spot above vein 2. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



Hah. Fernandas Pinheiro, ParanA, Brazil. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XCVII. 



Fio-. 



55. The Bornean Bantin. 

 By R. Lydekkek, F.R.S., F.Z.S.* 



[Received October 1, 1912 : Eead October 29, 1912.] 



(Text-figures 123-125.) 



That the Bantin of Borneo should be subspecifically distinct 

 from the typical Bos sondaicus of Java is what might naturally 

 be expected, and the only wonder is that its distinction has 

 not long since been recognized and a name assigned to the 

 local race. This, however, is not improbably due to the fact 

 that, so far at least as this country is concerned, the Javan 

 Bantin is an exceedingly rare animal in museums, the only com- 

 plete adult example in the Biitish Museum (ISTat. Hist.) being 

 the mounted skin of a bull obtained by exchange with the Leiden 

 Museum in 1846, and now, as might have been expected after 

 long and unprotected exposure in the galleries at Bloomsbury, in 

 an exceedingly dilapidated condition. The Museum also possesses 

 a fine mounted head of a bull, presented in 1904 by Baron L. T. 

 H. van Heckeren-tot-Walien ; and also the skeletons of a bull 

 and cow, with the horns, obtained from Leiden at the same time 

 as the mounted skin, the skull of the former being exhibited in. 

 the Pavilion at the further end of the Lower Mammal Gallery. 

 Li addition to these is the mounted skin of an immature male, 

 and also a young skull, with horns — from the Lidth de Jeude 

 collection — both of which present all the characteristics of the 

 Javan i-ace. 



On the other hand, the Museum has a considerable series 

 of skulls and horns of the Bornean Bantin presented by Mr. 

 H. B. Low in 1880 and 1887, as well as two presented by 

 Mr. W. B. Pryer in 1886, all these being from North Borneo. 

 Sir Edmund Loder also possesses at least two frontlets and 



* By permission of tbe Trustees of the British Museum. 



