the Common Hedgehog. 367 



Distribution. At present known only from the type, vvhich 

 is from Sicily, and certainly represents an interesting local 

 development of the hedgehog, for theopportunity of describing 

 which we are indebted to Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker. At his 

 suggestion I have pleasure in connecting it with the name of 

 Signor Console, his museum curator, to whose energy the 

 British Museum is indebted for a long series of Sicilian 

 mammals, including the types of my Eliomys pallidas and 

 GUs insularis, 



(8) Erinaceus europceus sibi7-icus. 

 Erinaceus sibiricus, Erxlebea, Syst. Regn. An. 1777, p. 172. 



Type unknown. 



Description. " E. europceus ^ notieo ex rufo-fusco et flavido 

 variegato ; gastrgeo dilute cinereo, flavldo-lavato " (L. J. 

 Fitzinger, Sitzb. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. I. Abth., Nov.-Heft, 

 Jahrg. 1867, p. 9). 



Distribution. Siberia. 



I have never seen a specimen of this form. 



(9) Erinaceus europceus dealbatus. 

 Eriiiacetis dealbatus, R. Swinhoe, P. Z, S. 1870, p. 450. 



Type No. Gl. 6. 2. 5, from Peking. Collected by R. 

 Swinhoe. 



Distinguishing characteristics. A pale form of E. europceus 

 of which we know very little, Swinhoe's description having 

 been taken from a quite young individual, and hence being 

 not very reliable. 



The only adult skull which is available for comparison is 

 that of no. 74. 1. 24. 23, collected by Swinhoe at Chefoo, 

 China, and in which the frontal processes of the premaxillae 

 are inconspicuous and terminate posteriorly in a sinuous line 

 with no sharply defined point. The dimensions reach 54 x 35. 



Distribution. At present only known from Chefoo and 

 Pekin, China. 



(10) Erinaceus europceus amurensis. 



Erinaceus europceus, L., var. amurensis, L. v. Schrenck, Reisen uud 

 Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 1854-1856, Bd.i. pp. 100- 

 105, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1858j. 



Typical locality Amurland. 



The Museum possesses no specimen of this subspecies, so 

 that I cannot compare it with others. 



