the Common fledjehng. 3G5 



Distribution. Italy (beslilcs the above I have 3eeii also a 

 specimen, no. 97. 3. 7. 1, from Calapiaiio *, Empoli, Florence, 

 collected by Mr. A. H. JSavage Laiidor), reaching at least 

 northwards to Switzerland, 



(5) Erinaceus eurojxBus roumanicuSf subsp. n. 



T^/'Corii;inal no. 50, from Gageni, Roumania (for particulars 

 see below). 



Distinguishing characteristics. In size, proportions, and 

 coloration of the upperside agrees with E. e. ti/piciis, but in 

 coloration of the underside with E. e. concolor, Martin, having 

 like that subspecies a dirty white spot on the breast. 



Two skulls at my disposal are distinguishable from five of 

 E. e. concolor by their greater size, including that of the 

 teeth, especially of P™-^. They agree, however, with 

 E. e. concolor in the inconspicuous posteriorly squared frontal 

 processes of the premaxillw, which thus end far more bluntly 

 even than the corresponding processes of E. e. europceusj and 

 fail to reach backward to half the length of the nasals; ante- 

 riorly the nasals are broader than in other subspecies. 



Dimensions (in millim.) of two specimens : — 



Skull. 



Breadth 

 Bnsal at 

 Ear. lengtli. zygoma. 



24 50 32 



28 54-0 30 



Distribution. At present known only from the type speci- 

 mens, but this form probably ranges eastwards until it meets 

 and perhaps intergrades with E. e. concolor. It was discovered 

 by the late Mr. W. Dodson. 



(6) Erinaceus europcnus concolor. 



Erinaceus concolor, W. Martin, I\ Z. S. 1837, pp. 102, 103. 



Tiipp No. 5/). 12. 24. 83, from the Museum of the Zoolo- 

 gical iSocit'ty of London, collected by Mr. Keith Abbott at 

 Trebizond. 



* This, although a young specimen, bears the date of 19th P'ebruarv, 

 1897. 



