200 J. Anderson — On the Indian Species [No. 4, 



III. A division on the vertex, separating the spines into two groups. 



Hind foot with a large prominent mesial pad. Muzzle moder- 

 ately long. Ears large, rounded at the tip and broad at 

 . the base. Spines long with 2 white and 3 black bands 

 in the adult. General colour black above and below, ... E.jerdoni, 



The following is a description of these species in detail : 



Eeinaceus microptis. Plate V^ . 



Erinaceus auritus, Pearson, Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. V, 183G, p. 191. 

 Erinnceus collar is, Gray. List. Mam. B. M. 1843, p. ^\, partiin, 

 Erinaceus micropus, Blyth, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XV, 1846, 

 p. 170, partim ; id. op. cit. Vol. XXII, 1853, p. 582 ; id. Cat. Mam. 

 Mus. As. Soc. Bengal, 1863, p. 80 : Wagner, Schreber, Siiugeth, Suppl. 

 V, 1855, p. 591 ; Stoliczka, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XLI, 

 1872, p. 225. 

 Erinaceus nudiventriSj Hoi-sfield, Cat, Mam. East Ind. As. Mus., 1851, 



p. 136. 

 Erinaceus {Hemiecliinus) micropus^ Fitzinger, Sitzungbte. der K. Akad. 

 Wissensch. Wien, Vol. LX, PI. 1, 1867, p. %1h,partim. 

 Head rather short, and broader than E. pictus, and slightly concave 

 from the forehead to the tip of the snout. Ears moderately large and 

 rounded at the tip, directed forwards and outwards, and slightly smaller 

 than the ears of E. pictus. Feet well developed, but small, short and 

 broad, with short toes and short claws : feet being somewhat larger 

 than those of E. pictibs. The first toe of the hind foot small, but claw 

 strong. The soles of the hind feet more or less tubercular. When 

 the muscle is not contracted over the forehead, the spines do not reach 

 anterior to the front margin of the ears. There is a broad bare space 

 passing backwards from the forehead for about one inch and a quarter, 

 with a nearly uniform breadth of half an inch, and this bare area would 

 appear to exist in both sexes of the species. The tail is short, and 

 there is a semicircular bare area above it. The eare are moderately but 

 sparingly clad with short whitish hairs, and .the tail with longish dark 

 brown hairs. The anterior third of the head, up to half way between the 

 nose, the eye, and the chin appear to be nude, but they are very sparsely 

 covered with minute white hairs. The middle third of the head is covered 

 more profusely with longer hairs, and the posterior third, to between the ears 

 densely with moderately long hairs, increasing in length from before back- 

 wards. The upper surfaces of the feet are well clad with short flattened 

 brown hairs. The bare surfaces on the head and above the tail are perfect- 

 ly devoid of hairs. The under sui'face is not very thickly clad and the 



