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ing, I think there can be but little doubt, that the Fatehgarh hedgehog 

 which is very common in the district is the E. coUaris, Gray. 



The specimens from Madras in the British Museum referred to this 

 species are, as already mentioned, examples of JE. micropus, Blyth. 



This species has been also obtained at Ajmir in Rajpiitana by Mr. 

 Blanford, and if 1 am correct in referring to it Button's two specimens, it 

 extends west to the Sutlej. There Hutton obtained it in separate holes, 

 *' beneath a thorny bush called ' Jhund' in the desert tracts of shifting sand 

 between Sundah Badairah and Hasilpoor," on the left bank of the Sutlej, and 

 apparently in close proximity to Erinaceus pictus, 



Eeinacefs blanfoedi, n. s., Plate V. 



Muzzle rather short (fig. d) and not much pointed ; ears moderately 

 Jarge (fig. ^), but broader than long and rounded at the tips, which are not 

 accuminate as in E, grayi. The length of the anterior margin is equivalent 

 to the breadth of the ear at its base. The feet (figs, e and/) are large and 

 the hind foot resembles that of E. grayi, with the first toe well developed 

 and there is the absence of any well developed median pad. The feet are 

 also larger and broader than in E. jerdoni, and the first toe is more largely 

 developed as in E. grayi. The claws are long and curved, especially those 

 of the fore foot. The tail (fig. h) is short. The spines meet in a point on 

 the forehead and do not reach quite so far forwards as the base of the upper 

 border of the ear, and there is no bare patch in the midst of them, on the 

 vertex. They are moderately long with 24 to 28 concentric ridges and fur- 

 rows, the former finely tubercular. The general colour of the spiny por- 

 tion of the animal is deep black, when the spines are looked at directly on 

 end and when they are at rest, but when raised or seen sideways, the mesial 

 yellow band becomes visible. The apex of each spine is broadly tipped 

 with deep black, and this is succeeded by a very broad yellow mesial band, 

 the base of each spine being dusky brown. The fur generally is deep brown 

 and moderately long and soft. A few white hairs occur on the chin, and 

 there is a tuft of white hairs at the anterior angle of the ear, and the latter 

 anteriorly and posteriorly is sparsely covered with white hairs. 



The skin of the back of the ear is blackish, also the margins of the ears 

 anteriorly, but the centre of the ear is white. The claws are yellowish. 

 Measurements of E, hlanfordi. 



Length of body and head, 5 36 



„ of tail, 91 



„ of hind foot without claw, 1 32 



Height of ear, 1" 10 



