366 Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-IIamilton on 



Distinguishing charactei-istics. Size smaller than that of 

 E. e. europceus and tarsi proportionately longer ; annulations 

 of the spines very indistinct, being almost absent in the type 

 specimen, in which the colour (both of the spines and of most 

 of the hairs) is an almost uniform vandyke-brovvn or burnt 

 umber (Ridgway's nomenclature) ; the chest is, as in E. e. rou- 

 manicus, dirty white, and there is a spot of the same colour 

 on the forehead and before each ear. The spines reach further 

 forward on the head than in E. e. europceus. 



I prefer to regard the remarkable coloration of the type as 

 having been artificially produced, and to identify with this 

 subspecies four specimens (nos. 1)4. 5. 7. 7 to 10) collected by 

 Mr. Saleem Baroody on Mount Lebanon. In these the 

 general size and proportions are as in E. e. concolor, but the 

 white tips to the spines are present, although the annulations 

 of their basal parts are less distinct than in those of other 

 known subspecies. 



Skull with the frontal processes of the premaxillse re- 

 sembling those of E. e. roumanicus, but with the teeth, and 

 especially P^ii, smaller than in that subspecies. All the 

 skulls are imperfect, but the palatal length both of the type 

 and of two of the Mount Lebanon skulls reaches only '6\, as 

 against 33 millim. in E. e. roumanicus, and thus indicates a 

 smaller animal. 



Distribution. At present known only from Trebizond and 

 Mount Lebanon. 



(7) Erinaceus europceus Consolei, subsp. nov. 



Type No. 98. 10. 6. 1, from near Palermo, Sicily 

 (Mr. J. L S. Whitaker). 



Distinguishing characteristics. Spines longer and thicker 

 than in continental subspecies, and with the subterminal white 

 bands much broader and often obliterating the small dark 

 tips ; the median dark band is also blacker and more sharply 

 contrasted with the white bands. Colour of underside lighter 

 than in E. e. europceus. 



Skull with premaxillas moderately short and resembling 

 those of E. e. hispanicus. In the type the frontal processes 

 do not quite reach backward as far as the centre of the 

 nasals. 



Dimensions (in millim.) of the type : — 



Skull. 



, A_ 



Head and 

 body. 

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