440 HEDGEHOGS FROM MADAGASCAR. 



Shaw ^) called le petit Tandrek , Sonnerat , Erinacetis 

 Madagascariensis , at the same time keeping together almost 

 all the described Hedgehogs from Madagascar under that 

 name: more especially however having in view in that 

 description Sonnerat's Hedgehog. We therefore consider 

 this Jive streaked Hedgehog as Erinaeeus madagascariensis. 

 I agree with Shaw in keeping distinct Buffon's Tanrec , 

 not however as a variety as he did ^). 



Et. GeoiFroy St. Hilaire ^) admitted two species: the 

 first was the Setiger setosus (Erinaeeus setosus, Schreber) 

 and the second species was a Hedgehog with three white 

 streaks on the back, which he named Setiger variegatus, 

 and thus being le jeune Tanrec, Buffon. — These species 

 were brought with by Sonnerat. 



Erinaeeus {Centenes) **) semispinosus , Cuvier *) is a syno- 

 nym of Setiger variegatus as being based upon le jeune Tanrec , 

 Buffon. Cuvier rightly observes that this species presents 

 six incisives in each pair of jaws. 



Centenes spinosus , Desmarest ^) is Setiger setosus , Geoff., 

 as the description also shows. 



The new genus Ericulus established by Is. Geoff. St. Hi- 

 laire ') is based upon a Hedgehog with "incisives au nombre 

 de quatre a chaque machoire," and therefore agrees with 

 Setiger^ Et. Geoffr. St. Hilaire, the latter generic name 

 thus having the priority. 



Echinops Telfairi , Martin ^) , presents the snout , ears , 

 tail , and spiny covering of the upper surface of the body , 



1) General Zoology, 1800, Vol. I, T. II. p. 54,8. 



2) General Zoology, 1800, Vol. I, T. II, p. 549. 



3) Catalogue des Mammifères, 1803, p. 72. 



4) According to Cuvier this genus-name should have been given by lUiger , 

 but lUiger in his "Prodromus, 1811, p. 124", has established the genus Ceii- 

 tetes , in favor of Erinaeeus ecaudatus, Lin. Gmel. 



51 Le règne animal, 1817, T. I, p. 166. 



6) Mammalogie, 1820, T. I, p. 162. 



7) Annales des sciences naturelles, 1837. Seconde Série, T. VIII, p. 60 

 (4 Septembre). 



8) P. Z. S. L. 1838, p. 17. 



iS'otes from, the Leytlen IMuseiiiii. 



