1895.] HEDGEHOG FROM SOMALILAJS'D. 419 



not SO rounded as those of E. sclateri. The longer spines of 

 E. frontalis have exceedingly narrow yellowish tips, with a very 

 broad dark brown band below theru, so that the animal has a dark 

 colour, almost like E. coUaris of India ; whereas in E. sclateri the 

 spines are broadly tipped with white succeeded by a brown band, 

 but not so broad or dark as in E. frontalis, so that the coloration 

 of this Hedgehog is nearly white, but with an orange-brown tint. 

 In E. frontalis the face from behind the angle of the mouth, 

 through the eye, and between the eyes to the nose is russet- 

 brown. The shoulder, fore limbs, a band across the chest, the 

 body, and hind limbs are dark russet-brown ; the remaining parts, 

 viz., the forehead, the front of the ears, the side of the neck, and 

 the chest behind the brown pectoral band, are white. By these 

 differences in coloration the two species are at once distinguished 

 from one another, while their specific distinctness is established by 

 the other structural dissimilarities already enumerated. 



This species is only known from Somaliland. 



This genus is represented in Africa by six species, viz., E. algirus, 

 Duv. & LerebouUet, E. frontalis, A. Smith, E. sclateri, E. albiventris, 

 Wagner, E. cHhiopicus, Ehr., and E. auritus, Gmelin ; and the 

 following is their synonymy and distribution : — 



1. Eeiivacetts algieus, Duv. & Lereb. 



Erinaceus alr/irus, Duv. & LerebouUet, Me'm. de la Soc. du Mus. 

 d'Hist. Nat. de Strasbourg, iii. (1840) pp. 4-5 ; Dobson, Monogr. 

 Insect, pt. i., Jan. 1882, p. 12 (external characters only); 

 Lataste (F.), Act. Soc. Bordeaux, xxxix. (1885) p. 200 ; Explor. 

 Sc. de la Tunisie, Cat. Orit. des Mammif. 1887, p. 5, et Suppl. 

 pp. 39-41. 



Erinaceus Tcrugi, Peters, SB. Ges. naturf . Fr. Berlin, 1 877, p. 78 ; 

 Dobson, op. cit. pp. 11, 12. 



Erinaceus fallax, Dobson, op. cit. pp. 9, 10. 



Erinaceus deserti, Dobson, op. cit. pp. 12, 13 (cranium). 



Distribution. Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, and Marocco (Tetuan). 



2. EEiNACEirs FEONTAiiis, A. Smith. 



Erinaceus capensis, Andrew Smith, Phil. Mag. & Annals of Phil, 

 vol. ix. Jan.-June 1831, pp. 61, 62 (nomen nudum). 



E-inaceus frontalis, Andrew Smith, South Afr. Quart. Journ. 

 vol. i. (1830) no. 5, Oct. 1831, p. 10 ; ibid. vol. ii. Dec. 1833, p. 61 ; 

 111. of South African Zoology, 1849, plate iii. ($); Bennett, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. (1832) p. 193 ; "Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 

 (1841) p. 21 ; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, Ivi. 1867, p. 854. 



Erinaceus capensis. Smith, T. Smuts, Diss. Zool. Enum. Mamm. 

 Cap. 1832, p. 8. 



Erinaceus cliadematus, Dobson, op. cit. p. 10 (nee E. diadematus, 

 Wiirttemb., Fitz.). 



Distribution. South-western Africa, Benguella to the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



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