142 HEDGEHOGS FROM MADAGASCAR. 



Tanrecs long seulement de quatre pouces — 10.8 c. m. — : 

 leur corps est , en clessus , noir , avec cinq bandes longitu- 

 dinales blanchatres , dont les latérales sont pen distinctes," 



Finally , Bartlett ^) enumerated among other Mammels 

 from Madagascar , Ericulus nigricans , inhabiting Tamatave , 

 but as he added no description at all , nobody can make 

 out what he meant , without having seen his type specimen : 

 perhaps it was a slip of the pen and was his example the 

 Ericulus nigrescens, Geoif. 



Now recapitulating the foregoing , we may distinguish 

 the following genera and species of Hedgehogs, found in 

 Madagascar. 



A. Se tiger *), Etienne Geoflfroy St. Hilaire — 1803. 

 I. ?zf . c. — \ P. M. — . M. — . 



2—2 1—1 3—3 3—3 



Resembles externally the common European Hedgehog. 

 No streaks nor bands on the back. No crest. 



1. Setiger set o sus, Schreber — 1778. 



Upperparts of head , from a line drawn between the 

 eyes and ears , of back , sides of the body and upperparts 

 of thighs furnished with harsh quills ; they are , however , 

 not so harsh as in the common Erinaceus. Head, throat, 

 breast, belly and legs are almost naked, sparingly covered 

 with soft and rather short hairs. Eye-brow hairs and 

 whiskers very long , the longest attaining more than twice 

 the length of the wishers of Erinaceus europaeus. 



Quills greatly differing in hue in the various specimens. 

 Generally the points and bases are white: the youngest 



1) P. s. z. L. 1875, p. 6i. 



2) Mivart (P. Z. S. L. 1871, p. 73) keeps distinct the genera Ericulus, Is. 

 Geoff, and Echhwps, Martin. Echinops , Martin, however was based upon a not 

 fuUgrown individual — measuring about 13 cm. — and therefore the /«'wr/wzojif 

 molar in each jaw was still wanting, but it agreed for the rest in all respects 

 with Ericulus, Is. Geoffroy, whilst this latter is a synonym of Setiger, Et. 

 Geoffroy. 



Notes IroiTi the Leyclen ]VIuseum. 



