CAi Prof. T. Mori OH 



of a wild ho.ir from Korea, but tliat descriptioti was in some 

 resi)ects incomplete; therefore inaininalogists do not mention 

 it at all. I give here a detailed desciiptiou from a specimen in 

 my school, and I should use for it the name of " Sns coreanus.^^ 



Tt/pical localiti/. — Tetsugen, Kogendo, Korea. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Sus leucomystax continentalis, 

 Nehring, but skull narrower, premolars of each half upper 

 jaw 4 instead of 5, lacrjnual pits shallow and unrecognizable, 

 infraorbital foramen narrow and high (breadth 8 mm., 

 height 13), and posterior margin straight. Posterior portion 

 of nasal, together with anterior portion of frontal, conspicuously 

 convex. Nasal cavity broader. Anterior portion of the 

 lower jaw slightly curved upwards. 



Colour. — General colour brown (not black-brown). The 

 streak from angles of mouth to lower jaw inconspicuous. 

 Underpart brownish. The bristles along median line of neck 

 and shoulder are lengthened and form a crest. Underfur 

 dense and woolly. 



Dimensions. — Skull: greatest length 430 mm.; basal 

 length 355 ; zygomatic breadth 85 ; nasal l)readth 225 ; 

 greatest conbined breadth of nasals 38 ; palatal length 255; 

 length of i^-\-]\P 235 ; rostral depth between P^ 73 ; greatest 

 length of M^-\-AP 46 ; length and breadth of M' 37 X 22 ; 

 length of upper margin of lacrymal bQ ; length of lower 

 margin of lacrymal 29 ; height of anterior margin of lacrymal 

 33; height of posterior margin of lacrymal 30. 



LXV. — On Two Forms of the Korean Hedgehog. 

 By Prof. T. Mori, Keijo liigh School, Seoul, Korea. 



The series of five specimens of the Korean hedgehog shows 

 that this strikingly characterized animal is represented by 

 two readily distinguishable forms, which may be briefly 

 defined as follows : — 



Erinaceus dealbatua orientalis, Allen. 



Erinacetis orientalis, Alleu, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xix. 

 pp. 179-181 (1903). 



? , Korea : original number II. ^ , Korea : original 

 number V. From near Kanko, Korea. 



A pale brown species allied to Erinaceus dealbatus, Swinhoe, 

 by having wholly white spines intermixed with the pale 



