NEW SPECIES OF INSECTIVORES FROM BRITISH EAST 

 AFRICA, UGANDA, AND THE SUDAN 



(With One Plate) 



By EDMUND HELLER 

 Naturalist, Smithsonian African Expedition 



This paper contains descriptions of eleven new species and one 

 new genus of Insectivora. The material described is from the col- 

 lection made in east Equatorial Africa by the Smithsonian African 

 Expedition under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The 

 bulk of the species are from Rhino Camp, in the Lado Enclave, 

 Egyptian Sudan. The precise geographical position of this spot is 

 latitude 2° 55' north, on the west bank of the Nile, some fifteen 

 miles north of the station of Wadelai. 



This paper is the twelfth dealing with the results of the expedition. 



ERINACEUS SOTIK^, new species 



Sotik Hedgehog 



Type from the Guaso Nyiro River, Sotik District, British East 

 Africa; adult male; number 1621 12, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by 

 J. Alden Loring, June 28, 1909; original number, 6451. 



Characters. — Nasal bones very long and attenuate posteriorly, 

 reaching to middle of frontal bones; zygomatic arches slender; 

 spines with the dark point so minute that there is no visible terminal 

 speckling to the coloration. 



Coloration. — General dorsal coloration white, the spinous portion 

 with a speckling due to the dark subterminal rings of the spines 

 showing through. Snout, chin, lips, and head posteriorly to behind 

 eyes, hair brown ; fore and hind feet lighter brown ; the legs white 

 like the sides. Under parts white, the hair white to the base. Tail 

 white. Dorsal spines annulated with a broad band of seal brown 

 subterminally, the tip broadly white with a minute dark point. Low- 

 down on the sides a few wholly white spines are interspersed with 

 the annulated ones. Longest spines on head 20 mm. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 56, No. 15 



