646 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History [Vol. LXV1 



New 1 Subspecies and Its Type Locality 



1. Orycteropus erikssoni faradjius Hatt. Faradje. 



MANIDAE 



Manis Linnaeus 2 



Manis Linnaeus, 1758, 'Systema Naturae,' 10th Ed., p. 36. Type by mono 

 typy, pentadactyla. 



The following names, which, among others, have been proposed for 

 the African pangolins, are here recognized as subgenera. 



Phataginus Rafinesque, 1821, Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys. Brux., VII, pp. 214-215. 3 

 Included species tricuspis and ceonyx ( = longicaudatus). Type by subsequent designa- 

 tion (Pocock, 1924, p. 722), tricuspis. 



Smutsia Gray, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, p. 369. Type by designa- 

 tion, temminckii. 



Uromanis Pocock, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 722. Type by designation, 

 longicaudata. 



Manis (Smutsia) gigantea Illiger 



Plates XXXII to XXXIV 



Manis gigantea Illiger, 1815, Abh. d.k.Ak.d. Wissensch. Berlin, p. 84. 

 fPholidotus wagneri Fitzinger, 1872, Sitzber. K. Akad. Wien Math. Naturwiss. 

 CL, LXV, (1), p. 48. 



Manis gigantea is a terrestrial pangolin measuring in excess of 1200 

 mm. when adult. In common with all other African pangolins no hairs 

 project between the scales, the median dorsal row of scales does not 

 extend to the tail tip, and there is no external pinna of the ear. The 

 belly is naked, the preaxial surface of the fore limb bears scales to the 

 base of the claws, the tail is massive and bears no naked subterminal 

 pad, characters shared with a smaller species temminckii. There are 

 12 to 15 scales in the median dorsal row of the tail. The massive skull 

 measures over 130 mm. in adults. 



Represented by 14 skins, 11 skeletons, 1 skull, and two fetuses in 

 formalin, collected as follows: 



Bafuka, 1 (skin of adult), April 5, 1913 



Niangara 1 (adult 9 ), April 26, 1913 



Niapu, 12 (6 adult tf 1 , 4 adult 9 , 2 fetuses), November 18, 1913- 

 January 27, 1914 



Poko, 2 (1 adult 9 , 1 im. 9 ) August 4 and 10, 1913. 



iHatt, Robert T. 1932. 'The Aard-vark of the Haut Uele.' Amer. Museum Novitates, No. 535, p. 1. 



2 The reader is referred to Pocock (1924, p. 718) for a review of the generic nomenclature of the 

 pangolins. 



3 The title-page bears the date 1820, but according to Sherborn (see Pocock, 1924, p. 721) it was not 

 published until the following year. 



