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and chin hoary grey, the limbs and belly greyish black. 

 Bars large, greyish white. Spines commencing in front on 

 a level with t lie hinder edge of the ears. Dorsal spines 

 elongate, about 37 mm. where longest, their surface rough, 



as usual in this genus, the basal fourth or third white, 

 succeeded by a darker band 3-5 mm. in breadth, the 

 remaining portion half white, with the terminal half black! 

 None of the spines have light tips, and the general colour is 

 consequently blackish. 



Skull without the peculiar elongate narrowness of those 

 of P. hypomelas and macracanthus t the zygomata about as 

 widely bowed in proportion to the size of the skull as they are 

 in P. blanfordi and grayi ; the frontal regions also broader, 

 while the intertemporal "waist" is narrower and more 

 strongly marked. Nasals less strongly narrowed and pro- 

 longed posteriorly. Mesopterygoid fossa wider in front, 

 more narrowed behind. Pterygoids more inflated and more 

 approaching the extreme type found in P. atliiopicus, the 

 parapterygoid fossae consequently very shallow. In hypo- 

 melas and macr acanthus these fossae are deeper and more 

 normal than in other species of Paraechinus. Bullae rather 

 higher than in the allied species. 



Teeth apparently quite as in macracanthus. 



Dimensions of the typical skull — the skin having no 

 measures recorded and being so made that none can be 

 taken : — 



Greatest (condylo-basal) length 52 mm. ; basal length 4!) ; 

 zygomatic breadth 30"2 ; nasals 16 x 3 - 6 ; breadth across 

 postorbital processes 15*5; intertemporal breadth IT"; 

 breadth across postglenoid processes 266; palatal length 

 27; breadth of mesopterygoid fossa 41 ; upper tooth- 

 series 25 ; combined length of p^, m l f and m 2 12. 



Hah. Kandahar, Afghanistan. 



Type. Adult male. 13. M. no. 81. 8. 16. 3. Collected 

 April 1881, and presented by Col. Chas. Swinhoe. 



This specimen is that referred by Scully in 1881 * and 

 again by Wroughton in 1910 1 to Erinaceus macracanthus, 

 but it appears to me certainly distinct. It has not the 

 peculiarly elongate n on- constricted skull of that species, 

 Avhile the structure of its pterygoids, a most characteristic 

 part in these animals, is more as in the other species of 

 Paraechinus. 



* Ann. & Mag. N. II. (5) viii. p. 224 (1881 |. 

 t Journ. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xx. p. 82 (H 



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