544- PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1896. 



64. Canis mesomelas Schreb. Black-backed Jackal. 



A skin of this species in the University of Pennsylvania is repre- 

 sented by a skull (No. 3,845) in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Locality not given. 



65. Mellivora ratel (Sparrm.). Ratel. 



A skin with skeleton (No. 8,814) was received by the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Another skin was retained by 

 Dr. Smith. They both came from Gebas near the Shebeli, and were 

 taken January 6, 1895. 



66. Erinaceus albiventris atratus subsp. nov. Galla Hedgehog. 



Type — No. 3,831, Yg. Ad. ^ ; collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Collected by Dr. A. Donaldson 

 Smith at Ngare Nocbor, Lake Eudolf, Africa, August 26, 1895. 



Description — Similar to E. albiventris Wagner, as defined by 

 Dobson,^* but with hoary black limbs, feet, tail, ears and face- patch, 

 the remaining pelage pure, clear white. Extreme tips of spines 

 sooty black. 



Color — Spinous region covered evenly with spines 20 mm. long, 

 whose extreme tips are dusky, followed by a subapical zone of dull 

 white 5 mm. wide, then by a horn-black zone 8 mm. wide, fading 

 into a lighter zone and darkening again into a black base. Facial 

 area, bounded by edges of upper lips and lines drawn from corners 

 of mouth to eyes and thence connecting across forehead, thinly- 

 haired anteriorly by sooty black, more thickly and lengthily haired 

 posteriorly, and with a decided moustache below eye across cheeks, 

 of pure black. A triangular spot of black on lower lips and chin, 

 to corners of mouth. Region between dark facial patch and spines 

 of hind-head and ears, cheeks, throat, breast, belly and sides nearly 

 to ventral region, pure silky white with an occasional black hair. 

 Fore-legs from body to feet black, well intermixed with white, es- 

 pecially on inner side of arm. Fore-feet and soles black with a few 

 gray hairs. Hind-limbs and feet colored like fore-limbs, with a de- 

 cided whitish patch on inner side of pes near heel. Tail and vent 

 hoary black. Formation of feet as is minutely described by Dobson 

 for albiventris (I. c). The rounded, thickly-haired ears, grayish, 

 sooty black, inside and out. 



Measurements (of type by collector in field) — Total length, 118 

 mm.; tail vertebra^, 10; hind-foot 23 ; ear from crown (dry) 13.5. 



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Monog. Insectiv., 1882, p. 11. 



