624 Prof. E. Linnberg on Eastern Hedgehogs. 
mm. 
Greatest combined breadth of nasals ........ece+sses0e OO 
Interorbital width at for. Jacr............. Be Halwtiteencr sci 16:2 
Least postorbital width ..........++.e00% Shien ge eer 14 
Widtb across premaxillaries...... AERO AO Ole Nese LES 
Width acrosaoutsid evoteesee miaeietleiiaaieichercretels dln deere oe ZOD 
intire maxillary tooth-row ........ Pcie MNOIO AS ocr Sool pa 
These measurements prove that EH. dealbatus is consider- 
ably smaller with regard to cranial dimensions than the 
Common Hedgehog and the species which will be described 
below from Korea. From the former it differs also with 
regard to the transverse position of m*. There is a rather 
broad shelf behind the transverse posterior ridge of the 
palate and also a median spine. C is double-rooted. 
The sagittal crest is not very strong and does not encroach 
much on the frontals. 
Erinaceus koreanus, sp. n. 
Ove specimen from Chosen, Korea. (Type in R. Nat. 
Hist. Mus. Stockholm.) 
The median parting on the crown is well pronounced, and 
leaves a rather broad naked area between the groups of 
spines. The line forming the anterior limit of the spines on 
the crown runs at an equal distance between eye and ear. 
The spines covering the head and nape are somewhat more 
slender than those of the body, and appear also to be more 
regularly directed backwards in one and the same direction 
than the former. Behind them there is a zone on the upper 
neck, in which the spines are arranged more irregularly 
crosswise and somewhat shorter, many being only about 
15 mm. or even less, while the spines of the head and the 
back, as a rule, are about 20mm. The spiny head-covering 
looks paler than that of the body, because many of the 
spines are wholly white and the others have in the upper 
third an indistinctly defined pale brownish ring, above this 
one a white ring, and finally a brownish tip. The spines of 
the body display the same pattern. There are many white 
spines as well, but those annelated with brown have the 
rings more deeply coloured and some of them are also 
brownish at the root as well. All taken together this 
hedgehog looks, however, very pale compared with the 
European one. The naked area above the snout is much 
longer than the breadth of the rhmarium. The hairs above 
the same are rusty whitish, becoming more white in the 
middle of the face, but above and below the orbits brown 
hairs are more numerous than the white mixed in. The fore 
head in front of the real spines is beset with long and bristly 
—or, perhaps better, spimous—hairs, which are brownish 
