260 TAPIRID-ffi). 



Tapiras sumatranus, Gray, Med. Sepos. 1821. 



Tapirus malayanus, Saffles, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 270 ; Griffith, A. K. 



ui. t. ; Horsf. Zool. Joum., Zool. Java, t. ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones, 



B. M. 5. 276. 

 Tapirus bicolor, A. Wagner, Schreh. Sdugeth. vi. p. 400. 

 Rhinochcerus sumatranus, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 884. 



Hab. Malacca. 



The upper hinder edge of the intermaxilla triangular, narrow, 

 produfted, with a part of the maxilla on the inner side separating it 

 from the margin of the internasal aperture. The front edge of the 

 cavities of the internal nostrils in a line with the hinder edge of the 

 sixth tooth when all the seven grinders are developed, and in a line 

 with the back edge of the fifth grinder when the sixth grinder is 

 being developed, and also when it is completed and the seventh 

 grinder is being developed. This last or seventh grinder is de- 

 veloped very late in life ; indeed I have not seen any skulls, either 

 in the British Museum or in the CoUege of Surgeons, where it is 

 developed. There are three in each of these collections. 



De Blainville (Osteographie, Tapirus, pi. 2) figures the skuU of 

 an adult animal with all the seven grinders developed ; and he re- 

 presents the front edge of the hinder nasal opening as in a line with 

 the hinder edge of the sixth or penultimate grinder, as in the skuU 

 of Tapirus wmerieanus. The skull of the skeleton figured in plate 1 

 of the same work, like the skuU in the British Museum, has only six 

 grinders in the upper, and five in the lower jaw. 



Cuvier (Oss. Foss.) states that the Malay Tapir was discovered in 

 India by M. Duvaucel. It does not inhabit India ; and M. Du- 

 vaucel only knew the animal from the drawing of it that was in 

 General Hardwicke's collection, from a specimen obtained by Major 

 Farquhar in Malacca, and from a skull which he obtained from the 

 same source. 



2. Ehdnoclioeras me. 



Me des chinois, B,emviat, Ann. Sei. Nat. xviii. p. 5, 1. 1. 

 Hah. China. 



Tribe II. ELASMOGNATHIN^. 



The nasal aperture short, broad, subcordate, and truncated in 

 front by the bony ridges of the maxilla. The upper jaw with a high 

 sharp-edged crest on the upper inner edge, embracing the sides of 

 the very large internasal cartilage, which early become entirely 

 ossified into a bony plate, permanently dividing the nasal cavity, 

 and forming a high bony crest on the front of the skuU. 



ElasmognatHnse, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 885. 



