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Rh stout, thick-set forms, and short tails, as well as for the malignity of their savage countenances, their gigantic strength, and the brutal ferocity of their manners. They inhabit Africa, frequent rocky ridges more than sylvan forests, go on all fours, and subsist, for the most part, on scorpions, which they find under stones, and divest of their stings by a dexterous action of the thumb and finger.

CHACMA.

We select, for illustration of this genus, the Chacma of South Africa (Cynocephalus porcarius, .), the colour of which is blackish brown,