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Show 34 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE SUIDAE. [J by B. II. Hodgson, Esq. It is that of an animal developing the last molar. In form the skull is very like that of Sus, but shorter ; the forehead is convex ; the nose tapers in front of the orbit, is rather swollen and wide over the deeply concave cheeks ; the concavity is deepest in the middle of the cheeks, and it is only separated from the orbit by the narrow edge of the orbit. The canines are small, the upper ones not recurved. 3. POTAMOCHCERUS. Face elongate, with a bony protuberance on each side, halfway between the nose and eyes. Ears elongate, suddenly tapering, and ending in a pencil of hairs. Tail thick, elongate, high up on the rump. Skull elongate ; brain-case swollen ; nose nearly of the same width the whole length, rounded above, with a rather thickened upper margin, and a deep concavity on the cheeks extending nearly to the front of the orbit, and partly over and nearly covering the malar process that supports the zygomatic arch. Male. Swollen, and often warty on the sides in front. Sheath of the canine with a large broad process on the upper side of its base. Female. Side of the nose simple, and the sheath of the canine with a well-marked ridge across the upper part of its base. Teats four. Young four at a birth, with longitudinal stripes. Koiropotamus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. 185. Choiropotamus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1852. Potamochcerus, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. xv. 66 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 301 ; Fitz. Sitz. Akad. d. Wiss. 1864, p. 19. Phascochcerus, sp., Jardine. Phacochcerus, sp., Lesson in Tabl. R. A. 1841, p. 162. 1. POTAMOCHOZRUS AFRICANUS. Bosch Vark. B.M. Ears densely hairy; internally white, with black edge and tuft. Fur black. Head and back whitish or yellowish ; forehead and back black-varied ; large spot beneath the eyes black. Skull: male. The lateral tubercular ridge prominent, and elevated above the upper surface of the nose ; lateral process on the base of the sheath of the upper canine broad, compressed, reaching to the level of the upper surface of the nose. Female with transverse ridge at the base of the sheath of the upper canine. African wild boar, Daniel, African Scenery, t. 22. Sus africanus, Schreb. Saugeth. i. 327; P. Z. S. 1852, p. 131 ; Blainv. in Laur. et Bazin, Anat. Phys. t. 11. f. 9 (teeth); Blainv'. Osteogr. t. 8. f. 1; Gray, Griffith, A. K. t.; Reichenb. Nature: d' Pachyd. t. 33. f. 129. &" Sus larvatus, F. Cuv. Mem. Mus. vii. 447, t. 22; A. Smith S. A. Quart. Journ. 90; Blainv. Oste'ogr. Onguligr. t. (skull). Sus koiropotamus, Desmoul. Diet. Class. H. N. vii. t. 1 • P Z S 1852, p. 131. Choiropotamus africanus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 185. |