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records it from Beluckistan and the Natural History Museum has a 

 specimen collected at Kandahar by Colonel Swinhoe in 1881. 



" 107. ERINACEUS PIGTUS ; '— 



Type—? 



Date— 1872. 



Locality — Kach. 

 This name must give place to micropus, which was described by 

 Blyth in 1846 on a specimen (B.M. Nos. 79, 11, 21, 517, skull only) 

 collected by. Capt. Hutton at Bhawalpur. The .zygomatic arch is 

 complete. The name micropus, therefore, must stand for this species, 

 with p ictus as a synonym. 



Synonymy. — In 1843 Gray in his Catalogue named a specimen, 

 labelled " Himalaya " (B. M. Nos. 42, 4, 12, 16) purchased from a 

 dealer, mentalis, but gave no description. There seems great pro- 

 bability, however, that the specimen was from Nasirabad. 



" 108. ERINACEUS MICROPUS "— 



As micropus applies to a northern form, it cannot be used for the 

 Madras Hedgehog, which was described by Horsfield in 1851 on a 

 specimen (B.M. Nos. 79, 11, 21, 467) collected by Sir Walter Elliot 

 under the name of nudiventris. This latter name must therefore 

 stand for this " South-Indian Hedgehog." 



Thus corrected, the list of the Indian Hedgehogs is as follows : — 



1. Erinaceus collaris, Gray and Hardwicke 



= indicus, Royle (nomen nudum) 

 = spatangus et grayi, Bennett. 



2. Erinaceus megalotis, Blyth. 



3. Erinaceus blanfordi, Anderson 



= jerdoni, Anderson. 



4. Erinaceus macracanthus, Blanford. 



5. Erinaceus micropus, Blyth 



= pictus, Stoliezka 



= mentalis, Gray (nomen nudum). 



6. Erinaceus nudiventris, Horsfield. 



