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palatal length 25°3 ; dental length 23:5 ; combined length of 
p’ and two anterior molars 10. 
Hab. as above. 
Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 21.12.3.2. Original 
number 1173. Collected 5th April, 1921, by V. 8. La Per- 
sonne for the “* Cox-Cheesman collection ” (2. e., the collection 
of H.K. Sir Perey Cox and Major R. E. Cheesman, R.E.). 
Presented to the National Museum. 
It may be noted that although, when describing P. niger, 
Blanford stated that the description was ‘ chiefly taken” 
from the specimen he had in spirit, he did not formally select 
that specimen asa type. I therefore venture to do so for 
him, taking the specimen he referred to—B.M. no. 88. 6.18.3 
—as the lectotype ; and at the same time I may select 
B.M. no, 74. 11, 21. 25 as alectotype of his Hrinaceus macra- 
canthus. 
In working out this Tanb hedgehog, I have re-examined a 
black hedgehog from the 8.W. corner of Arabia collected in 
1902 by Mr. G. W. Bury in the mountainous country behind 
Aden. 
This also praves to be subspecifically separable from true 
niger, and may be called 
Paraechinus niger sabeeus, subsp. n. 
Size of type about asin small specimens of niger. General 
colour as in that animal, but the face largely mixed with 
whitish, the black and white hairs (on the single specimen) 
so arranged as to form a sort of pattern. Centre of face 
mostly blackish, then an area above each eye to the crown 
whitish, and then outside these two areas a black line on each 
side running up in front of the ear to the base of the anterior 
spines. Whether this pattern is usually present cannot at 
present be stated. Ears whitish. Chin and interramia 
white. Rest of underside, hands, and feet wholly black. 
Spines ringed black and white as in niger. Feet con- 
spicuously smaller than in niger, the fore feet only 23 mm. in 
length, and the hinder equally small in proportion. 
Skull quite as in niger. 
Dimensions (measured in the flesh) :— 
Head and body 174 mm.; tail 28; hind foot 30; 
ear 44, 
Skull: condylo-basal length 48°5 ; zygomatic breadth 26 ; 
palatal length 27; dental length 23°3; combined length of 
p® and first two molars 11°2. 
