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ERINACEID.1I. 



brown band, the rest yt-llowish white. Ears round, moderately large. 



Limbs brown, under surface j^elJowisli white E. pictus. 



B. Second uppbe premolar compound, three-fanged. 

 h. Fett ivell developed and, broad. 



II. No division or bare area on vertex. 



No large mesial pad on the bind foot. Head elongated and 

 muzzle long. Ears large, high and pointed. General color dark 

 brown E. Grayl. 



III. A division on the vertex, separating the spines 

 into two groups. 



Hind foot with a large prominent mesial pad. Muzzle moderately 

 long. Ears large, rounded at the tip and broad at the base. Spines long, 

 with two white and three black bands in the adult. General color 

 black above and below E. Jerdoni. 



The following are Dr. Anderson's descriptions of these species iu 

 detail. 



Erinaceus pictus, Stol. Joum. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 223; 

 Anderson, J. A. S. B. vol. xlvii. p. 195; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., Sfc, 

 Sind, p. 73; Dobson, Monog. Insect, pt. i. p. 13. 



Plate III. 



Head (fig. d.) short and broad. Ears (fig. g.) somewhat largo and 

 longer than the muzzle; feet (c to /) narrow, small. Toes short. The 

 tail short with a nude area above it. Spines short, about O'S" iu 

 length, with 20-22 fiuely tuberculated ridges, their tips broadly 

 white, and the brown bands below not very dark. The result is that 

 the latter are nearly obscured by the former. The remaining are pale 

 yellowish, nearly white and not orange. There is no continuation of 

 the brown band of the forehead lower than the angle of the mouth, 

 except as a very rare circumstance. Spines on the head divided by a 

 nude median area. Forehead, neck, breast and sides of the body cover- 

 ed with yellowish white fur, less close on the abdomen. Rump, tail, 

 fore and hind limbs and sides of the face brown. 



Male. Female. 



Length of head and body. ... In. 6-70 6-00 5-85 5-90 4-73 



„ „ tail „ 0-68 0-68 0-55 0-53 0-58 



Height of ear „ 1-33 1-23 1-03 1-21 0-,85 



Breadth of ear „ 0-86 0-88 0-70 (i-81 O'Cl 



Snout to eye „ 0-88 0-80 0-88 0-95 0-73 



Bye to ear „ 0-39 0-35 0*30 0-30 0-25 



Length of hind foot without 



claws „ MO 1-12 1-10 MO 0-95 



Breadth across 5th toe „ 9-35 0-30 0-25 0-35 0-30 



The skull (figs, a to c) is distinguished by its shortness and great 

 zygomatic breadth, in which respects it differs from the skulls of all 

 other Asiatic hedgehogs, and by its one-fauged, small, simple, second 

 premolar placed out of the line of the teeth and by the rather marked 

 post-orbital contraction. 



