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Show 1868.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON T H E SUIDAE. 25 ft Head moderate, and without warts. Skull with the lower jaw about half as long again as high at the occiput; concavity on cheek in front of the orbit wide behind. a. Skull-concavity on cheek in front of the orbit deep behind, and separated from the orbit by a well-marked ridge. 2. Sus CELEBENSIS. B.M. Black-brown above and below ; bristles on upper mandibular wart white. Ears moderate, nakedish; fur with scattered bristles. " Head with three warts : the wart on the upper jaw large ; the one under the eye and the other over the canine-teeth very small, indistinct." Sus celebensis, S. Miiller, Verhandl. i. pp. 172, 177, t. 28* (animal and skull; ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones, B. M . 278. Sus verrucosus, fl, Wagner, Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl. iv. 299. Sus scrofa, var., Giebel, Saugeth. 235. Hab. Celebes (S. Miiller). B.M. Skull rather more than half as long again as high ; concavity on the cheek in front of the orbit very deep behind, separated from the orbit by a high narrow ridge; sheath of upper canine with large light crest-like ridges (see Miiller, Verh. t. 28*. f. 2, 3). 3. Sus VITTATUS. B.M. Yellowish or brown black, with a white streak from the end of the nose to the angle of the mandible. Ears moderate, nakedish ; fur with scattered bristles. Head without any warts. Skull short; concavity in front of orbit broad and deep, near the orbit, separated from the orbit by a broad ridge. Sus vittatus, Boie, M S . ; S. Miiller, Verhand. i. 42. 172, 173, t. 29 (animal), t. 32. f. 5 (skull); Blainv. Osteogr. Onguligr. t. 5 (skull) ; P. Z. S. I860, pp. 442, 443 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones, B. M. 277. Sus scrofa, var., Giebel, Saugeth. 225. Hab. Java; Borneo ; Amboyna; Macassar ; Banka. A skeleton (712 e) of a Pig, received from the Zoological Society under the name of the Javan Pig (Sus verrucosus), seems to belong to this species; but the concavity in front of the eye is scarcely as deep as usual, perhaps arising from its having been long in confinement. No. 1362 c. Skull of an adult male of Sus vittatus from Amboyna, from Mr. Wallace. Nose rather wide before in front of the orbit, and then with parallel sides; concavity in front of orbit deep and large, separated from the front of the orbit by a narrow raised convex edge. Canines thick ; crest at base strong. Length 12|, height at occiput 8 inches. The processes of the sheaths of the upper canines are curved back, sharp-edged above, and straight and truncated at the end. No. 1362 d. Skull of adult, very like 13G2 c, also from Amboyna, |