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Echidna nebulosa (Ahl). 



Three from Samoa, one from Hawaii, and another without data 

 (likely from the last locality?). 



Echidna polyzona (Richardson). 



One from Hawaii. 



Eohidna zonata Fowler. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1900, p. 495, PI. 18, fig. 2. Hawaii. 



No. 16,484, A. N. S. P., type. 



Echidna sauvagei sp. nov. Fig. 8. 



Head 7; depth 13§; head width 3* its length; head depth If; 

 snout 6; eye 9; mouth 3; interorbital 8 J ; head 3| to vent. 



Body long, well compressed or sides with but slightly convex 

 surfaces, trunk of about uniform depth, and tail tapering back 

 behind moderately slender to tip. 





Fig. 8. — Echidna sauvagei Fowler. Type. 



Head well compressed, rather swollen behind, lower profile more 

 evenly convex than upper, which depressed slightly over eye, and 

 sides not converging above or below. Snout convex over profile 

 and surface, basal width \\ its length. Eye large, slightly ellipsoid, 

 without eyelid, little behind middle in upper jaw length. Mouth 

 nearly horizontal, commissure but slightly curving down though 

 showing it not completely closing. Lips thick, fleshy, smooth, 

 rather broad and largely free. Teeth all coarse, rather large, obtuse. 

 Upper teeth little longer than others anterior to eye, latter more 



