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3. Ehinacetjs sclateei, q. sp. 

 Distribution . Somaliland. 



4. Erinaceus albitentris, AVagner. 



Erinaceus alhiventris, "Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, 

 p. 22 ; Dobson, op. cit. p. 11. 



Erinaceus pruneri, Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, p. 23. 



Pcroechinus primeri, Titz. SB. Ak. Wien, t. Ivi. 1867, p. 856. 



Peroechimts alhiventris, Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, t. Ivi. 1867, 

 p. 857. 



Erinaceus heterodacty'lus, Sundevall, Vetensk.-Akad. Haudl. 

 (1841), Stockholm, 1842, p. 227. 



Erinaceus diadematus, Prinz Paul, Eiippell, Mus. Senck. t. iii. 

 (1845) p. 159 (nomen nudum) ; Fitz. SB. Ak. AVien, t. Ivi. 1867, 

 p. 853. 



Erinaceus adansoni, de Eochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7) 

 t. vii. 1883, p. 7. 



Distribution. Senegambia across Central Africa, southwards to 

 TJkamba and northwards to Somaliland. 



This species has been obtained in the following localities : — 

 Senegal ; Saint Louis ; Cape A-^erd ; Joal ; MacCarthy's Island, 

 Eiver Gambia ; Accra, Fantee ; Porto Seguro, Togo ; Gaboon ; 

 Kitui, Ukamba ; Tabora ; Kase ; Kilima Njaro ; AVakilomi, 

 District of Maka ; Central Somaliland ; Sennaar ; Kordofan ; 

 and region of Upper Nile. 



5. Erinaceus jethiopicus, Ehrenberg. 



Erinaceus cethiopicus, Ehr. Symbolae Phys. Decas ii. 1832. 



Erinaceus auritus, Eiippell (nou S. G. Gmelin), Neue AV'irbelth. 

 1835, p. 40, in part ; Tristram, Survey of AVest Palestine, 1884, 

 p. 24. 



Erinaceus senaarensis, Hedg. Isis, 1839, p. 5. 



Erinaceus brachydactylus, AVagner, Saugeth. Suppl. ii. 1841, 

 p. 24. 



Hemiechinus pallidus, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. AVien, 1867, p. 866. 



Eriyiaceus jiilatyotis, Dobson (nee Sundevall), op. cit. p. 12. 



Erinaceus deserti, Loche, Cat. Mammif., &c., de I'Algerie, 1858, 

 p. 20 ; Dobson, op. cit. pp. 12, 13 (nee cranium) ; Lataste, Act. 

 Soc. Bordeaux, xxxix. 1885, p. 202 ; Explor. Sc. de la Tunisie, Cat. 

 Crit. des Mammif. 1887, p. 5, et Suppl. pp. 39-41. 



Erinaceus algirus, Dobson, op. cit. p. 12 (cranium). 



Distribution. Upper Nile Valley, Sennaar to Abyssinia, the Eed 

 Sea littoral (Suakin), and northwards to Nubia (Dongola). 



6. Erinaceus auritus, S. G. Gmelin. 



Erinaceus auritus, S. G. Gmelin, Nov. Comment. Petrop. xiv. 

 1770, p. 519, tab. xvi. ; PaUas, ibid. p. 573, tab. xxi. fig. 4; 

 GeofEroy St.-Hilaire & Audouin, Descr. de I'Egypte, Hist. Nat. ii. 

 (1827) pp. 737-739, pl. 5. fig. 3 ; Audouin, ibid. pp. 745, 746, 

 Suppl. pl. i. (skull and teeth) ; Dobson, Monogr. p. 16. 



