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johnstoni Major without that I think that it is identical with the race mentioned, which 

 is perhaps still larger. Nevertheless, the present skull displays with its great breadth 

 of the parietal area more resemblance to P. ch. johnstoni than to the true P. intermedins, 

 to judge from the measurements of a skull of the latter communicated by Schouteden.^ 

 The author quoted has as already has been mentioned recorded the breadth of parietal 

 area in an adult P. intermedins to be only 17,5 mm., while the same dimension according 

 to my own observations^ on an adult and a semiadult P. ch. johnstoni (in Brit. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist.) is resp. 44 and 41 mm. 



For the present and until more material is available it appears best to leave the 

 question about the identity of this skull open. It may, however, be mentioned that 

 ScHOTJTEDEN has referred a couple of Bushpigs from Kitalanga in the Katanga province 

 to P. ch. johnstoni on account of their broad parietal region. 



It might also be possible, that this big boar skull should belong to the race which 

 just has been named P. i. arrhenii. For such a theory speaks the fact that both have a 

 broad parietal area. The great difference otherwise in size should then be explained as 

 due to differences in age and sex. 



The small Potamochoe.rns-^\g is collected at Masisi, three days west of Ejvu the 

 4th of Febr. 1914. As it is from another locaUty it is not certain to which race of Bush-pig 

 it may belong. It might even belong to some race of the jjorcws-series, because thee ars 

 have light margins, but as such partly are found also in P. intermedins and P. i. arrhenii 

 it might be of the latter race. It has a very fine pattern of longitudinal stripes on the back 

 (fig. 10). The general colour might be described as something between »rustred» (Dau- 

 THENAY, 318, 1) and »Mars yellow » (1. c. 316, 4). In this colour three broad longitudinal 

 black bands extend along the back from above the shoulders. At a closer inspection, 

 however, it is found that each of these three broad black bands is divided by a narrow 

 and sometimes faintly developed rufous stripe. The stripe which cuts the mesial black 

 band corresponds evidently to the future dorsal crest, but it is only faintly developed at 

 this age. Laterally from the three broad black bands one or two narrower black bands 

 may be traced, but they are by far not so conspicuous and chiefly only on the hind quarters. 



The head is dark, the forehead and crown being grizzled black and rufous. The 

 surroundings around the eyes are rust red with a narrow black eye-brow stripe and a 

 small whitish spot underneath the eye. The ears are black with yellowish margins on 

 both sides. The snout is dark brown; the chin is black, and the throat is mixed rufous and 

 white with a small central black spot. A white band along the lower cheeks corresponds 

 to the future whiskers. The chest is white and in the middle the belly has the same colour, 

 but laterally it is »Mars yellow » (316, 1). The fore-feet are brownish, the hind feet some- 

 what mixed with whitish, but mostly greyish brown. The tuft of the tail is partly yellow, 

 partly black. 



The dentition of this animal is very interesting. In the upper jaw the two me- 

 dian pairs of incisors have not yet cut the gum, but id^ is long, slender and canine-like, 



' Eevue Zool. Afrioaine, Vol. II, p. 140. 

 ' Ark. f. Zoologi, Bd. 7, n:o 6, p. 17. 



