the Common Hedgehog. 365 



Distribution. Italy (besides the above I have seen also a 

 specimen, no. 97. 3. 7. 1, from Galapiano *, Empoli, Florence, 

 collected by Mr. A. H. Savage Landor), reaching at least 

 northwards to Switzerland. 



(5) Erinaceus europceus roumanicus, subsp. n. 



Tj/pe original no. 50, from Gageni, Roumania (for particulars 

 see below). 



Distinguishing characteristics. In size, proportions, and 

 coloration of the upperside agrees with E. e. typicus, but in 

 coloration of the underside with E. e. concolor^ Martin, having 

 like that subspecies a dirty white spot on the breast. 



Two skulls at my disposal are distinguishable from five of 

 E. e. concolor by their greater size, including that of the 

 teeth, especially of p'"-^ . They agree, however, with 

 E. e. concolor in the inconspicuous posteriorly squared frontal 

 processes of the premaxillse, which thus end far more bluntly 

 even than the corresponding processes of E. e. europceus, and 

 fail to reach backward to half the length of the nasals ; ante- 

 riorly the nasals are broader than in other subspecies. 



Dimensions (in millim.) of two specimens : — 



Skull. 



. /v. 



Breadth 

 Head and Hind Basal at 



body. Tail. foot. Ear. length, zygoma. 



cJ (immature), Gageni, Rou- 

 mania, 28th April, 1899 



{the late W. Dodson) .... 170 (about) 28 41 24 50 32 



Original no. 50. $ (adult), 

 ditto, 19th April, 1899. 

 (Mammae 8.) (Type of 

 Bubspecies.) 806 24 43 28 54-5 36 



Distribution. At present known only from the type speci- 

 mens, but this form probably ranges eastwards until it meets 

 and perhaps intergrades with E. e. concolor. It was discovered 

 by the late Mr. W. Dodson. 



(6) Erinaceus europceus concolor. 



Erinaceus concolor, W. Martin, P. Z. S. 1837, pp. 102, 103. 



Ti/pe No. 55. 12. 24. 83, from the Museum of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society of London, collected by Mr. Keith Abbott at 

 Trebizond. 



* Thi8, although a young specimen, bears the date of 19th February, 

 1897. 



