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finger. The fourth finger of the 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 . . 
Tail 
Hind foot 
Nose to eye 
» „ ear . . . 
Ear 
Length of skull 
Greatest breadth 
Length of nasals 
„ „ upper molar series 
Distanee between upper incisor and first molar. 
» 
» 
» 
» 
Mm. 125 
100 
23 
15 
28 
„ 15X13 
. 30 
. u 
. 11 
. 5 
. 7 
This species has been called mchmanni in honor of Professor Wioh- 
mann from Utrecht, the fellow-tra veiler of Prof. Webek. 
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 seil the quills at the pas- 
sars (markets), f. i. at Katjang on tlie 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 
