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finger. The fourth finger of tlio hands is about of the length of the 
middle finger ; index finger with claw as long as fourth finger without 
claw ; fifth finger without claw reaches to the end of the first phalanx 
of the index finger; the thumb only represented by a rounded well 
developed sole-pad, without claw or flat nail. 
The palate-ridges have a very remarkable form , see Plate X , fig. 7. 
Whiskers very long , they are wholly white or wholly black colored. 
Upper-incisors orange, lower ones much lighter colored: they are 
ungrooved. 
Some measurements of the type-specimen , an adult male in alcohol : 
Head and body Mm. 125 
Tail „ 100 
Hind foot 23 
Nose to eye „ 15 
» „ ear „ 28 
ïîar „15X13 
Length of skull , „ 80 
Greatest breadth „ 14 
Length of nasals „ 11 
„ „ upper molar series „ 5 
Distance between upper incisor and first molar. „ 7 
This species has been called wichmanni in honor of Professor Wich- 
MANN from Utrecht, the fellow-traveller of Prof. Wbbee. 
Acanthion. 
Acanthion javanicum Cuvier. 
Java: Buitenzorg; skin: young (274); skeleton (292). 
South- Celebes : Manindjau; skin: adult (479), 
Prof. Weber remarks that this Porcupine is very well known to the 
indigenous as living in South-Celebes: they sell the quills at the pas- 
sars (markets), f. i. at Katjang on the bay of Boni and at Bikeru, 
interior of South- Celebes ; the women make use of the quills for needles, 
in Flores for hair-ornament. Prof. Weber purchased at Sikka, Flores, 
a large quill stinged through a ring of the tail upon which the obtuse 
quills still present: here it is too a hair-ornament. In Flores this 
Porcupine everywhere is known. Although he was not lucky enough 
to procure a specimen, a man showed to Prof. Weber the spot where 
