1858.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 267 



Report of Curator, Zoological Department, for May, 1858. 



1. Dr. G. von Liebeg, having kindly permitted a native collector in 

 the pay of the Society to accompany him, in his recent visit to the new- 

 penal settlement at Port Blair, on the eastern coast of the southern island 

 of Great Andaman, I have now much pleasure in reporting on the spe- 

 cimens that were obtained by him and by Dr. Liebeg himself, under cir- 

 cumstances of considerable difficulty. 



In the class of mammalia, there are only a human bone and some skulls 

 of the undescribed wild Hog of the Andamans. 



The bone is the left femur of probably an adolescent female. Length 

 14^ in., by 2-f in. in circumference at middle of trunk ; the epiphyses 

 imperfectly anchylosed. It is charred throughout ; having been found 

 among the smouldering remains of a recently fired village. 



On the same occasion were found the following bones of the wild Hog. 

 1. Skull of an adult boar, wanting the tusks and lower jaw. 2. Lower 

 jaw of a rather larger boar, with the series of teeth complete. 3. Skull 

 of an adult sow, with teeth in lower jaw complete, and the upper series 

 wanting only some of the incisors. 4, 5. Skulls of adolescent sows. 6, 7. 

 Heads wanting lower jaw, of adult sows. 8. Lower jaw of adolescent 

 sow. 9. That of a younger individual. All of these skulls are daubed 

 over- with regular stripes of red ochre, and had been hung up as trophies 

 in the huts of the natives. 



Sus an daman en sis, nobis, n. s. Seemingly akin to the S. papuensis 

 of New Guinea, and to Mr. Hodgson's Pigmy Hog of the Nepal sal-forest, 

 which he terms Poecula salvania. The entire length of the skull of an 

 adult male, from occiput to tip of the upper jaw, is only 10^ in. : breadth 

 at zygomata 4| in. : palate to tip of intermaxiliaries, 6 in. : series of 

 molars six (properly seven, the first having been displaced by the growth 

 of the tusks, which are shewn by the shape of their sockets to have been 

 large and abruptly curved outward and upward) ; longitudinal diameter of 

 the tusk-sockets f in. : series of six grinders 3£ in. : from tusk-socket to 

 tip of intermaxiliaries, If- in. : breadth of occiput above, where nar- 

 rowest, 1 in. ; and of bony palate, 1 in. The lower jaw of a rather larger 

 male measures 8f in. to tip of incisors ; and height to summit of coronoid 

 process, 3f in. : the tusks project If in., as in the Indian boar, and 

 are proportionately robust and keen-edged: series of six grinders 3f in., 

 thence to the tusk 1 in., and midway, a little nearer the tusk, is situate a 

 small premolar : the hindmost grinder is longer, in its antero-posterior 

 diameter, than the penultimate by only one-half; and in the upper series 



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