{)24 Piol. Vj. TjiMuibci <f 071 Ecistern Ilerltjehogs. 



mm. 



Greatei-t combined lucacUli of nasals ^ 



Intororhital widtli at /or. lacr 1(V2 



1 .ea«t postorljital width 14 



Width across ]irpmaxillftrios 123 



Width across outside of »»' 205 



Entire maxillary tooth-row i.'7"3 



Tliese measurements prove tliat E. (JcaJbatus is consider- 

 ably smaller -with regard to eranial dimensions than the 

 Tommon HedgeliOg and the species which will be described 

 below from Korea. From the foniier it dill'ers also Mith 

 ri <:iird to the tnmsverse position of in^. There is a rather 

 broad shelf behind the transverse posterior ridge of tiie 

 palate and also a median spine. C is double-rooted. 



The sagittal crest is not very strong and does not encroach 

 much on the frontals. 



Erinaceus koreanus, sp. n. 



O e specimen from Cliosen, Korea. (Type in R. Nat. 

 Hist. :Mus. Stockholm.) 



The median parting on the crown is well i)ronounced, and 



leaves a ratlier broad naked area l)etwern the groups of 



spines. The line forming the anterior limit of tlie sj)ineson 



the crown runs at an equal distance between eye and ear. 



The s]unes covering the head and nape are somewhat more 



slender than those of the body, and appear also to be more 



regularly directed backwards in one and the same direction 



than the former. Behind them there is a zone on tiie upper 



neck, in which the spines are arranged more irregularly 



erosswise and somewhat shorter, many being only about 



15 mm. or even less, while the spines of the head and the 



back, as a rule, are about 20 mm. The spiny head-covering 



looks paler than that of the body, because many of the 



spines are wholly white and the others have in the upper 



tliird an indistinctly defined pale brownish ring, above this 



one a white rino-, and finally a brownish tip. The spines of 



the body display the same pattern. There are many white 



spines as well, but those annelated with brown have the 



rings more deeply coloured and some of them are also 



brownish at the root as well. All taken together this 



hedgehog looks, however, very pale compared with the 



European one. Tiie naked area above the snout is much 



longer than the breadth of the rhinarium. The hairs above 



the same are rusty whitish, becoming moi-e white in the 



mitldle of the face, but above and below the orbits brown 



hairs are more numerous than the white mixed in. Tiie fore 



head in front of the real spines is beset with long and bristly 



— or, perhaps better, spinous — hairs, which are brownisli 



