216 erinaceid.t:. 



105. Erinaceus megalotis. The Afyluin JlcfljeJtor/. 



Erinacens megalotis, Blyfh, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 353 (1845); xv, 

 p. 170 ; id. Cat. p. 80 ; A7iderson, Cat. p. 103 ; Sciilli/, A. M. N. II. 

 ser. 5, viii, p. 223 ; Dohson, Mun. Ins. p. 18. 



Size large. Spines long, each surrounded by twenty-seven to 

 twenty-nine faintly tuberculated ridges, the spines on the head 

 not divided by a naked space in the middle. Ears large, trianguLnr. 

 Eeet well developed ; claws strong ; posterior pad of hind foot 

 almost obsolete. 



Skull larger than that of E. cottcins, but otherwise similar. In 

 a Kandahar specimen Scully found that the second upper premolar 

 was two-rooted, but this is exceptional, and due to the two outer 

 fangs being united into one. 



Colour dark. Eace and ears brown (cinereous according to 

 Hutton), with a few white hairs intermixed ; sides of head white, 

 with brown hairs mixed ; chin nearly white ; lower parts, tail, and 

 limbs dark sooty brov^n. 



Spines brown at the base, then white, succeeded by a faint dusky 

 band (occasionally absent), reaching nearly to the middle, then a 

 broad whitish band succeeded by a narrower dark brown ring, 

 followed by a white band and terminating in a dark brown tip. 

 The dark ring on the proximal (or basal) half of the spine and the 

 longer spines distinguish this form at once from E. coUaris. 



JJimens'wns. Length of head and body about a foot according 

 to Ilutton, tail 1'5 inches, ear from base 1-5, hind foot 1-55, 

 longest spines 1*05 ; extreme length of skidl 2-05 (in another skull 

 2"3), zygomatic breadth 1*2 (and 1"35). 



DhtrUmtion. Apparently found throughout a large part of 

 Afghanistan ; the type was from Kandahar. This species lias 

 been found near Quetta by Ilutton, St. John, and others. 



Jfahiis. Ilutton says : — " They feed on slugs and Helices, with 

 which the fields at Kandahar are overstocked ; they also pny on 

 worms, insects, and lizards. They hide during the day in holes, 

 and come out in the evening to feed. They retire to hybernate in 

 deep holes in the earth in the end of October or beginning of 

 November, according to the season, and remain in a semi-torpid 

 condition till Eebruary, when they again appear." 



100. Erinaceus jerdoni. Anderson's Hedgeliog. 



Eriuaceus jerdoni, Anderson, J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. 2, p. 200, pi. \ a 

 (1878); id. Cat. p. 105; Dobson, Mon. Ins. p. JO. 



Spines long, each surrounded by about nineteen luberculated 

 ridges, those on the forehead commencing betw(>en the ears in t\\o 

 belts divided by a nude area along the middle of llie head. ]<]ars 

 large, subtriangular. Eeet well develo])ed ; claws strong ; liind 

 foot with a large posterior pad in the middle opposite the halhix. 



Skull more elongate than in other Indian species, with a per- 



