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finger. The fourth finger of the hands is about of the length of the 

 middle finger ; index finger with claw as long as fourth finger without 

 claw ; fifth finger without claw reaches to the end of the first phalanx 

 of the index finger; the thumb only represented by a rounded well 

 developed sole-pad, without claw or flat nail. 



The palate-ridges have a very remarkable form, see Plate X,fig. 7. 



Whiskers very long , they are wholly white or wholly black cölored. 



Upper-incisors orange, lower ones much üghter colored: they are 

 ungrooved. 



Some measurements of the type-specimen , an adult male in alcohol : 



Head and body Mm. 125 



Tail „ 100 



Hind foot ........ . „ 23 



Nose to eye „ 15 



» „ ear „ 28 



Ear „ 15 X 13 



Length of skull „ 30 



Greatest breadth „ 14 



Length of nasals . . . *. „ 11 



„ „ upper molar series „ 5 



Distanoe between upper incisor and first molar. „ 7 



This species has been called wichmanni in honor of Professor Wich- 

 mann from Utrecht, the fellow-traveller of Prof. Webeb. 



Acanthion. 



Acanthion javanicum Cuvier. 



Java: Buitenzorg; skin: young (274); skeleton (292). 



South-Celebes : Manindjau; skin: adult (479). 



Prof. AVeber remarks that this Porcupine is very well known to the 

 indigenous as living in South-Celebes: they seil the quills at the pas- 

 sars (markets), f. i. at Katjang on the bay of Boni and at Bikeru, 

 inferior of South-Celebes; the women make useof the quills forneedles, 

 in Flores for hair-ornament. Prof. "Weber purchased at Sikka, Flores, 

 a large quill stinged through a ring of the tail upon which the obtuse 

 quills still present: here it is too a hair-ornament. In Flores this 

 Porcupine everywhere is known. Although he was not lucky enough 

 to procure a specimen , a man showed to Prof. Weber the spot where 



