368 MAHIDID^. 



Manis longicaudata, Mapp, Edmt. p. 15 ; Shaw, Zool. i. p. 180, t. 65. 

 Pangolin d'Afrique, Ouv. Oss. Foss. v. p. 98. 



Hab. Africa : Guinea, Gaboon. 



** Scales of the body ham-coloured, in twenty-one series. Phatagin. 



2. Manis tricuspis. (Phatagin.) B.M. 



Pale brown ; bair of face and underside of body grey ; scales of 

 the body in twenty-one series, truncated, with a central prominence, 

 often appearing three-pointed. Body 12, taU. 18 inches. 



Phatagin, Buffon, 



Manis tricuspis, jRaJi/nesgue, Ann. G6n. Sci. Phys. de Bruxelles, idi. 



p. 214 ; Sundevall, I. c. 1841, p. 252; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 363. 

 Manis multiscutata, Gh-ay, P. Z. S. 1843 ; Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 188; 



Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843 ; Zool. Typ. p. 15. 

 Manis 4-dactyIus, Thompson, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 28. 

 Manis tridentata, Focillon, Rev. de Zool. 1850, t. 1. 



Hah. "West Africa : Fernando Po {Fraser) ; Guinea ; Sierra Leone 

 {Thompson). Skeleton and skull (B.M.). 



The face of the skuU, from the &ont of the orbit, is rather more 

 than half the length of the brain-case. 



A specimen of this species in spirits in the British Museum has 

 the nose produced, conical, bald, smooth, with three series of plates 

 on the front of the forehead, commencing about halfway between 

 the tip of the nose and the eyes. The nostrils are lateral, covered 

 with a well-developed flap. The cheeks and orbits with scattered, 

 short, black hairs, like the hairs on the back of the hand and wrist. 

 Ears without any external conch. The underside of the body with 

 scattered, very short, rigid hairs. The skin of the back between the 

 scales bald. The scales elongate, with straight sides for two-thirds 

 of their length, then contracted, with rather concave sides, with two 

 deep broad notches on each side of the tip, forming three more or 

 less distinct projections, the middle one being the most produced. 

 Soles of fore and hind feet bald and callous, covered with a hard 

 skin, which peels off in spirits. Toes 5.5; the front inner small; 

 the fifth, second, and then the fourth larger ; the middle or third 

 largest : hinder inner small,' the outer larger ; the second and fourth 

 larger, and the third rather larger still, but not so much larger as in 

 the front foot. The upper part of the fore feet and wrist unarmed, 

 and covered with short, scattered hairs. The hind feet covered with 

 scales nearly to the claws, and hairy on the sides and at the base of 

 the claws. 



Professor Eapp separates the specimens from Fernando Po as a 

 species, because in the latter the tail is shorter and all the scales are 

 tricuspid ; but the specimens from "West Africa vary in the length 

 of the tail, and in perfect sflecimens all the scales are tricuspid. 



In the British Museum there are a skull (fig. 42) and a complete • 

 skeleton (fig. 43) which were extracted from the skins of two animals 

 from "West Africa, which are so very much alike in form, and in the 



