Descriptions of East Asiatic Mammals 39 
the Old World temperate zone is E. europceus. Several races of 
this species have been described. Two of them, the Chinese 
Hedgehog, E. e. dealbatus and E. e. miodon, live in China. The 
former is widely distributed in Shantung, Hopei, Hupeh, and 
Kiangsu, the latter in a restricted area in Shensi. Besides the 
foregoing, there are other races in western China. Farther north 
a race, E. e. amurensis, of the Amur region of Siberia probably 
Fig. 6. True Hedgehog, Erinaceus europaus. 
extends to Vladivostok and through Manchuria into the Khin- 
gan Mountains area of China ; and a second race, E. e. koreanus, 
is known in Korea. 
THE MOLES (FAMILY TALPID^e) 
Moles are ordinarily thought of as "varmints" that make 
raised ridges through our finest lawns by tunneling in the sod 
and pushing up the surface as they go. The culprits include the 
European True Moles of the subfamily Talpinse and the Ameri- 
can Moles, Scalopinse, which have their front feet altered into 
powerful, paddle-like organs with which they "swim" through 
