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never being dangerous to human beings ; but, except as regards 

 its non-dangerous character, this was quite contrary to Captain 

 Powell-Cotton's experiences. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited and made remarks on a peculiar 

 Stag's frontlet and horns which had been obtained by Mr. Charles 

 Hose in Borneo. Mr. Hose had informed him that the Deer 

 came from a hitherto unvisited part of Borneo, the Pa Bauan 

 country in the far interior, and that he had been told that several 

 people had procured similar horns from that district. 



Mr. E. Shelford, C.M.Z.S., exhibited a series of lantern-slides, 

 exemplifying mimicry amongst Bornean insects, especially amongst 

 the Longicorn division of the Coleoptera. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On a new Hedgehog from Transcaucasia ; with a Revision 

 of the Species of the Genus Erinaceus of the Russian 

 Empire. By Constantin Satunin, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received May 29, 1901.] 



In the autumn of 1900, I made an excursion into the sandy 

 district lying along the foot of Mount Ararat, with the intention 

 of studying its Pauna. 



This locality is highly interesting, inasmuch as its Plora bears 

 a great resemblance to the Plora ol: the Transcaspian province, the 

 sands being for the greater part covered by shrubs of Calligonum 

 polygonoides Pall., met nowhere else in Transcaucasia but which 

 is exceedingly common in Transcaspia. I likewise found a great 

 similitude between the faunas of these sands. 



Of special interest for the locality near Ararat is the long-eared 

 Hedgehog of the district, which belongs to a new species, and 

 which shows closer affinities to the Transcaspian Erinaceus alhulus 

 than it does to the E. auritus of the Northern Caucasus. 



I name this Hedgehog E. calligoni on account of its area in 

 Transcaucasia being entirely limited to the distribution of Calli- 

 gonum polygonoides. 



I give the following description made by me from six specimens 

 collected near the village of Aralyk, which lies some 40 versts to 

 the south of Erivan, 



Ebi^staceus calligoni, sp. nov. 



This new species belongs to the group of E. auritus and resembles 

 the young individuals of that species, but diifers in some external 

 characters as well as in the structure of the skull. It is even 

 smaller than E. auritus, and is thus the smallest of the Russian 

 Hedgehogs. The length of my largest specimen does not exceed 

 160 mm. from snout to vent, whereas a large E. auritus attains 

 a length of 210 mm. The colouring of E. calligoni is lighter 



