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h 8f i' The skins of au adult and of another. Yangihissar. 

 Dr. F. Stoliczka. Presented by the 2nd Mission to Yaikand, 

 1873-74. 



j. A disarticulated skeleton. Yarkand, 25th May, 1874.. 

 Dr. P. Stoliczka. " Presented by the 2nd Mission to Yarkand, 

 1873-74. 



k. Two tubes containing spines and sections of spines of 

 this species. 



I. The skin and skull of an adolescent male. Karman. 

 South-Eastern Persia, 6,000 feet, 9th May 1872. W. T. 

 Blanfordj Esq. One of the types of IS. macr acanthus, Blanford, 

 and figured in Eastern Persia, 1870-73, Vol. II, Zoology, 

 pi. 1, fig. 2. Presented by the Persian Boundary Commission, 

 1872. 



•The skin of this animal is insepai-able from skins of 

 E. albulus, which • is apparently identical with Eriiiacens 

 aurittis-. In the absence of a bare area on the forehead this 

 hedgehog resembles E. auriiiis, while in this important struc- 

 tural feature it differs essentially from E. macracanthus. The 

 bare area is apparently not a variable feature in a species, 

 neither is it sexual. 



The skull also closely resembles the skull of E. amHm and 

 is inseparable from it. 



216. Erinaceus megalotis. 



(?) Erinaceus auritus, Pallas, Sutton, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xlv, 



1845, p. 353. 

 Erinaceus megalotis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Seng. vol. xiv, 1845, 



p. 353; Cat.-Mamm. As. Soe, Beng. Mus. 1863, p. 80; Stoliczka, 



Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. xli, 1872, p. 325 ; Blanford, Zool. of 



Persia, 1876, p. 28. 



Hab. Afghanistan. 



216a. An adult, mounted; No. 234A of Blyth's Catalogue. 

 Kandahar. Presented by Captain T. Hutton, 1845. Type 

 of E. megalotis, Blyth. 



i. The skin and skull of an adult. Purchased from a Kabul 

 merchant, trading between Kabul and India, January 1870. 



c. Five tubes containing spines of this species. 



Ears very large and rounded ; muzzle rather ^Kort and broad ; 

 feet large ; inner hind toe well developed ; claws large and 

 strong. Tail short, moderately long, and nearly naked. The 

 spines are rather long, but much shorter than in E. macracan- 

 thus, and they do not reach forwards to the ear, but nearly so, 

 and they are not divided on the vertex by a bare space. The 

 spines are covered with 28 raised ridges, rather strongly 



