ERETHIZON-——ERIN ACEUS. 269 
Erethizon F. Cuvier, 1822. Glires, Erethizontid:e. 
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, IX, 425-426, 432-433, pl. 20 ter., figs. 1, 2, 8, 1822. * 
Eretizon Cuvier, Dents Mamm., 178-179, 256, pl. 68, 1825. 
Erethison Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., LIX, 484, 1829. 
Erithizon Burnett, Quart. Journ. Sci., Lit. and Art, XXVIII, for Oct.-Dec., 1829, 
350, 1830. 
Eretison MeMurtrie, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, I, 154, 1831; abridged ed., 90, 
1834. i 
Erythizon Auston, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876, 94. 
Type: Hystrix dorsata Linnzeus, from eastern Canada. 
Erethizon: épetítc, to excite, to irritate—in allusion to the spines. 
Ericius (subgenus of Hrinaceus) SuNDEVALL, 1842. Insectivora, Erinaceidee. 
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handlingar, Stockholm (for ar 1841), 223, 
230-237, 1842. 
Species, 8: Hrinaceus auritus Pallas, from southeastern Russiaand southern Siberia; 
E. platyotis Sundevall, and E. xgyptius Geoffroy, from Egypt; E. hypomelas 
Brandt, from Turkestan; EH. collaris Gray & Hardwicke, FE. grayi Bennett, EF. 
spatangus Bennett, from India; and ‘ Erinaceus e Dauuria,’ of Pallas. 
Name preoccupied by Fricius Tilesius, 1813, a genus of Pisces. 
Ericius: Lat., hedgehog. 
Ericius Giese, 1871. Insectivora, Tenrecide. 
Zeitschr. Gesammt. Naturwiss. Halle, neue Folge, III, 57-60, Taf. rr, figs. 
1-3, 1871. 
Ericus BERGROTH, in C. O. Waterhouse’s Index Zool., 129, 1902. 
Type: Centetes semispinosus Cuvier, from Madagascar. 
Name preoccupied by Ericius Tilesius, 1813, a genus of Pisces; and by Kricius 
Sundevall, 1842, a subgenus of Erinaceidee. (See Hemicentetes Mivart, 1871.) 
Ericulus I. Grorrroy, 1837. Insectivora, Tenrecide. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, 2° sér., VIII, 60, July, 1837; Comptes Rendus, Paris, V 
374, 1837; Mag. de Zool., 1839, 1, 20-34, pls. 1-4. 
Hericulus GtocER, Hand- u. Hilfsbuch Naturgesch, I, pp. xxix, 78, 1841. 
Type not mentioned in the original description. In 1839 two species from Mad- 
agascar, Ericulus nigrescens Geoffroy (‘espéce bien connue') and £F. spinosus 
(= Centenes spinosus—‘espece douteuse’ ), were placed in the genus. 
Friculus: Dim. of ericius, hedgehog—from the close-set spines. 
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Erignathus Girr, 1866. Fer:, Pinnipedia, Phocid:e. 
Proc. Essex Inst., V (Communications), pp. 5, 9, July, 1866. 
Type Phoca barbata Erxleben, from the North Atlantic, along the coasts of Scot- 
land, southern Greenland, and Iceland. 
Erignathus: épt-, intensive prefix; »vd6oc, jaw—so called on account of the 
depth of the jaws. (Guirr, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., XLV, sep. p. xix, 1896. ) 
Erinaceus Linnxus, 1758. Insectivora, Erinaceid:e. 
Systema Nature, 10th ed., I, 52, 1758; 12th ed., I, 75, 1766; Brisson, Regnum 
Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 13, 128-131, 1762. 
Herinaceus Mind PALvMBO, Cat Mamm. Sicilia in Ann. Agr. Sic., 2^ ser., XII, 37, 
1868. . 
Type: Hrinaceus europzus Linn:eus, from Europe. 
Erinaceus: Lat., hedgehog. 


*[n the first reference the name is given as a subgenus, but used as a genus. 
It seems to be only a French name, except on p. 432, where it is abbreviated (‘E. 
dorsatum"). 
