370 MANIDID^. 



difference of sex, wMch the state of the specimens does not allow me 

 to determine. 



The separate skull (fig. 42) is very ventricose, thin, light, and 

 showing the sutures. 



The skull belonging to the complete skeleton (fig. 43) is smaller, 

 narrower, more conical, solid, and with the suture much less dis- 

 tinctly visible. 



A foetus of this species, 10 inches long, was noticed by Mr. 

 Thompson under the name of M. tetradaetylus (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1834, p. 28). 



2. PHOLIDOTUS. 



The fore and hind feet entirely covered with keeled scales ; the 

 internal claw of the fore foot nearly equal to the outer one, and not 

 retracted behind. Scales of the body broad, short. Tail moderate, 

 tapering at the end ; the central series of caudal scales continued to 

 the tip. Hah. India and Asiatic Islands. 



Pholidotus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 365. 



Manis ;8. Pholidotus, Sundevall, I. c. p. 263 ; Bapp, Edent. t. 6. f. 1, 2. 



* Scedes dark brown, m seventeen longitudinal series; the three or four 

 series on each side shorter, keeled. Tail as long as body and head. 

 Face of skull elongate, nearly as long as brain-case, 



1, Pholidotus javanus. B.M. 



Dark brown ; tail as long as body and head ; scales of the sides 

 and of the hind feet acutely keeled, the front and hinder claws 

 nearly equal-sized. Head and body 15, tail 15 inches. 



Manis pentadacWa, Baffles, lAnn, Trans, xiii. p. 249. 



Manis javanica (jaitly), Fucher, Syn. p. 400 (not of SwndevaU). 



Manis aspera, Sundevall, I. c. p. 263 ; Bapp, Edent. t. 2 a (good), t. 6. 



f. 1, 2 (skull); Besm. Mdmm. p. 377; Oerrard,Cat. Bones B. M, 



p. 285. 

 PhoUdotus javanus, Gray, P, Z, 8. 1865, p. 366. 



Hab. Sumatra (Baffles). Male and female (B.M.). 



Teats two, pectoral ; peiiis pendent. 



Manis aspera is described from a single specimen in the Paris 

 Museum, sent from Sumatra. It is evidently the same as that which 

 Rafles described and figured under the name M. javanica, and which 

 has been so named in the English museums. 



The M. javanica of Dr. Sundevall, which he described as having 

 fulvesoent scales, is the same as his M. Balmanni and the M. aurita 

 of Hodgson, which is common in India and has been generally con- 

 founded with the larger-scaled M. pentadactyla or M. laticauda. 



Desmai;est describes, under the name of M, javanica, the Java 

 animal with keeled scales on the legs, and refers to Raffles. 



Mam,ii gvy, Focillon, Eev. Zool. 1850, t. 10 ; Eapp, Edent. 17. 



