SOME NEW INDIAN MAMMALS. 771 



The Cutch Porcupine proves on examination to differ from the 

 Dekhan form. 1 propose to call it : — 



Hystrix cuneiceps, sp. nov. 



The Eajputana Porciqnne. 



A porcupine of somewhat smaller size than leucura. 

 Externally differing but little from leucura except in size, and a 

 somewhat paler colouring, especially about the head and neck. 



Compared with leucura, the skull is markedly smaller and 

 narrower and its greatest breadth is across the squamosal, instead 

 of aci'oss the maxillary roots of the zygoma, as in the former. 

 Bullae noticeably smaller. 



Biniensions of the type. — Head and body 680 ; tail 88 ; hind 

 foot 86 ; ear 42. 



Shell. — Oondylo-basal length 145 (155); basilar length 131 

 (139); zygomatic breadth, at the level of the back of the nasals 

 72 (85); the same at the level of the back of the parietal 78 (80); 

 length of nasals on median line 71 (80) ; anterior breadth of 

 nasals 33 (35) ; posterior breadth of nasals 34 (46) ; braincase 

 breadth 51 (61); diastema 42 (49^; postero-anterior length of 

 bull^ 18 (20) ; molar series 34 (32). 



Habitat. — Cutch and Eajputana. (Type from Nokania, Cutch.) 



Tfpe.— Adult male. B. M. No. 12-1-9-11 . Original number 261. 



Collected on July 14, 1911, by Mr. C. A. Crump and presented 



to the National Collection b}' the Bombay Natural History 



Society. 



The skull dimensions given in brackets above are those of an 

 adult male of leucura from Ivhandesh, which, I am satisfied, b}^ 

 comparison with Sykes' tj^pe, is true leucura. 



There is, in the National Collection, a specimen from Rajputana 

 which, except that it is younger, appears to agree in all characters 

 with the present form, and I have therefore proposed the name 

 " Rajputana Porcupine.*' 



In a collection from the Nimar District, made by Mr. C. A. 

 Crump, under the auspices of our Mammal Survey Fund, is a 



