8010.1]; 337 



vol. xiii, p. 93, 1891, vol. xxv, p. 168, 1905 ; Lydekker, Horns 

 and Hoofs, p. 360, 1893, Game Animals of India, etc. p. 283, 

 1907 ; Major, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xix, p. 521, 1897 ; 

 Stehlin, Abh. schweiz. pal. Oes. vol. xxvi, p. 70, 1899; Steele, 

 Bev. Zool. Suisse, vol. xiv, p. 33, 1907. 



Sus scrofa, var. Oiehel, Sdugethiere, p. 225, 1855. 



Dasychoerus verrucosus, Gray, Hand-List Thick-skinned Mamm. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 59, 1873. 



Sus mystaceus. Gray, op. cit. p. 62, pi. xxv, 1873. 



Type of Dasychoirns. 



Typical locality Java. 



Type in Leyden Museum. 



Head elongated, with three pairs of warty protuberances, 

 surmounted with bristles, one situated above the upper 

 canines, the second and larger under each eye, and the third 

 and largest a little below the ears ; a nuchal and dorsal 

 crest, gradually diminishing in height towards the tail ; ears 

 relatively large and wide, with the basal portion forming a 

 closed cylinder ; tail without distinct terminal tuft ; general 

 colour black, but certain bands on head and the whole 

 under-parts rufous ; young uniformly coloured ; muzzle bare 

 and flesh-coloured ; last molars very large and complex ; 

 lower canines (fig. 48, p. 310), with the hind surface 

 horizontal, and narrower than the outer one, which is the 

 broadest of the three; skull of medium length and height, 

 with two infra-orbital foramina. 



55. 4. 2. 2-3 (712, c). Skull, wanting upper canines. 

 Java. Purchased (Stevens), 1855. 



62. 1. 22. 2 (712, e). Skin, mounted, and skeleton, 

 immature (? semi-domesticated). Java. Type of >S'. mystaceits. 



Purchased {Zoological Society'), 1862. 



67.4.12.211(712,/). Skull. Java(?). 



Lidth de Jeude Collection, imrchased, 1867. 



67. 4. 12. 212 (712, t). Skull. Java(?). Same history. 



67. 4. 12. 213 (1362, g). Skull, immature. Java(?); 

 entered in Gray's Hand-List as S. vittatus ; referred to the 

 present species by Major, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 

 vol. xix, p. 539 (on p. 532 it is apparently referred to S. v. 

 celcbensis). Same histm-y. 



67. 4. 12. 214 (712, h). Skull, wanting several teeth. 

 Java (?). Same history. 



" IV. 2 



