1878.] of the Genus Erinacews. 203 



Gray in his List of Mammalia* confounded this species with his JE. 

 collar is, = U. grayi. 



JE. micropus appears to be confined to Southern India, where it occurs 

 in the low lying country and not on the mountains. Col. Beddome 

 informs me that no hedgehog is found on the Nilgiris. The limits, however, 

 of its northern and western distribution have yet to be ascertained. 



Eeikacetjs pictus. Plate III. 

 ? Urinaceus indicus, Royle, 111. Ind. Zool, 1839, p. 6, not described. 

 Erinaceus collaris ? Hutton, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Vol. XIV, 1845, 



p. 351, 3rd specimen, ^«r^^V?^ ; Blyth, I. c. p. 352, footnote, id. op. cit., 



Vol. XXII, 1853, p. 6^2,partim. 

 Erinaceics micropus, Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Vol. XV, 1846, p. 170, 



parti7?i. 

 Erinaceus (HemiecTiinus) micropus, Fitzinger, Sitzungsbte. der K. Akad. 



Wissensch. Wien, Vol. LVI, Pt. 1, 1867, p. S75, partim. 

 Erinaceus {Semiecliinus) pictus, Stoliczka, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 



Vol. XLI, 1872, p. 223. 



Head (fig. d) the same as in E. micropus, but the ears (fig. g) some- 

 what larger, and the feet (c to f) narrower and not quite so long : the tail 

 (fig. Ji) also is the same as in that species. The spines have the same char- 

 acters as in E. 7nicropus, but their tips are more broadly white and the brown 

 bands below are not so dark. The result is that the latter are nearly ob- 

 scured by the former. The remaining spines are pale yellowish, nearly white 

 and not orange. There is no continuation of the brown band of the forehead 

 lower than the angle of the mouth, except as a very rare circumstance, 

 and in animals from the region of Central India, where the species probably 

 meets the Southern E. micropus, but the colours in all other respects are 

 alike. The dimensions of the species are these : 



^ (J ? $ ? 



Length of head and body, 6" 70 6" 00 5" 85 5'' 90 4" 73 



„ „ tail, 0"6S 0''68 0" 55 0"53 0"58 



Height of ear, r33 r23 r03 1" 21 0"85 



Breadth of ear, 0" 86 0" 88 0"70 0" 81 0''61 



Snouttoeye, 0" 88 0"80 0" 88 0'' 95 0"73 



Eyetoear, 0''39 0"35 0''30 0''30 0"25 



Length of hind foot without claw, ... T 10 ri2 riO 1" 10 0''95 



Breadth across 5th toe, 0*35 0"30 0^25 0"35 0"30 



The skull (figs, a to c) is distinguished by its shortness and great zygo- 

 matic breadth, in which respects it differs from the skulls of all other Asia- 

 ♦ List of Mamm. B. M., 1843, p. 81. 



