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type would be attained. In a still younger female from Rohri, Sind, and for 

 the privilege of examining which I am indebted to Mr. W. T. Blanford, the 

 spines are fine and rather soft, and the majority of them do not exceed 

 0"*80, but yet they have only one white band prominently developed, although 

 the basal white band is more or less indicated. 



The hair generally is dusky brown, with an intermixture of grey hairs 

 on the head and on the chin and throat, the fur behind the latter area and 

 on the sides of the neck being paler brown than on the limbs and on the 

 sides. A patch of white hairs occurs at the base of the anterior angle of 

 the ear, and the inner surface of the ear is clad with short white hairs and 

 the apical third of the back of the organ with similar hairs. The mousta- 

 ches are brown and reach behind the ear. The claws are yellow. 



Measurements of E. jercloni. 



Adult. Adolescent. 



? <y 



Length of body and head, 7" 45 S'-'SS 



„ of tail, r25 0"91 



„ of hind foot without claw, 1''48 1' 40 



Height of ear, ^40 r'35 



Breadth of ear, 0" 76 0"80 



The skull of the female in its general characters is allied to the skull 

 of JE. macracanthus, Blanford, but is considerably less, with smaller teeth, 

 the upper dental line of the latter measuring 1*'03 to 0''*97 in this species, 

 which is a considerable difference in such small skulls. The skull also of 

 M. macracanthus is characterised by a considerable concavity on the mesial 

 line in the fronto- parietal area, which does not exist in this species. The 

 skull has also a very strong resemblance to the skull of E. niger, but it is 

 a relatively broader skull than the latter, which has an attenuated facial 

 region, less post -orbital breadth and less temporal contraction, a smaller 

 brain case, and only one internal cusp developed on the third premolar. It 

 is distinguished from the skull of E. hlanfordi by its more slightly elon- 

 gated character, by its greater jDost-orbital breadth and swelling, by its 

 relatively longer and less expanded zygomatic arch, more produced muzzle 

 and by its teeth. It is markedly distinct from the short but especially 

 broad skull of E. grayi, and it has much smaller teeth than that species. 



The external features which appear to me to entitle this form to recog- 

 nition as a species distinct from E. hlanfordi, are the very prominent char- 

 acter of the mesial pad on the hind foot, its larger ears and the presence of 

 a large nude area on the vertex, as in E. micropus and E. pictus, this latter 

 character along with those already indicated separating it from E. grayi. 



