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tolerably broad space extends from the hind head towards the middle of 

 neck ; spines, beginning on neck slightly in advance of a line connecting the 

 anterior basal edges of the ears, almost regular in young, but distinctly ir- 

 regularly* interwoven in the more adult ; each spine white on the basal half, 

 then with a broad blackish brown ring, followed by a yellowish white 

 tip, only the extreme point appearing slightly dusky ; each is further 

 surrounded by sixteen to twenty longitudinal grooves, separated by much 

 broader and very finely tuberculated ridges ; the minute tubercles being 

 laterally compressed. Limbs long and slender, each with five claws ; tail 

 very short and concealed. 



Snout, extending on the upper side as far as between the eyes and from 

 there stretching as an oblique band through the eyes to the base of the neck, 

 dark brown with very few whitish hairs intermixed ; ground colour of ears 

 brown, but thickly set with whitish hairs, lower jaw round the edges brown, 

 chm and throat whitish tinged with brown in the young, almost perfectly 

 white hi adults ; fore-limb beginning at the middle of the forearm, the hind 

 limbs entirely, including the region of the vent between them and at then sides, 

 and the tail chocolate brown ; soles of feet blackish and all the claws white. 

 Moustaches brown, whitish towards their tips, the longest nearly two inches. 

 An oblique streak in front of and below the eye to the angle of the mouth, 

 hind head and all round the neck, involving the base of the ears, the entire 

 lower side from the chin, including nearly half the length of the fore-limbs, 

 and extending backwards as far as the region between the hind-limbs white, 

 the lower side being thinly clad with hairs which are throughout arranged in 

 small tufts, each tuft evidently corresponding to a dorsal spine, as if each of 

 the spines had been dissolved into its original component parts. 



Total length of a specimen 5'5 inches ; distance from tip of snout to 

 anterior angle of eye 0"8 ; length of ear - 55, and the greatest breadth 

 about 04 ; length of carpus to tip of claws 0"8, the same of foot 1 inch, the 

 heel tubercular ; tail - 4 inches, thickly covered with hair. 



Besides this specimen which is the only one I preserved, I saw several 

 others in the western part of Kachh, and some were decidedly larger ; one 

 measured 63 inches, the distance from the tip of snout to the eye being 

 nearly 1 inch, and to the base of the ear nearly 1/5 inch. There are also 

 several specimens of this species in the Indian Museum from the North "West 

 Provinces about Agra, and from Rajputana. One of these measures nearly 

 7 inches from tip of snout to end of tail. 



* The regularity of the spines seems very much to depend upon the attitude of 

 the animal. When the animal is at rest, and the spines are in their natural position, 

 they are as a rule regularly directed backwards, but the moment the animal rolls in its 

 body, they become interwoven. 



