164 MAMMALIA- 



marked by small tubercles, as in E. maer acanthus. In the type, 

 the spines have in some instances a narrow pale tip, somewhat 

 as in E. grayi, hardly perceptible, however, in the great 

 majority, and immediately succeeded by a broad pale-yellowish 

 band, followed by a narrow dusky band, again succeeded by a 

 pale band. In two specimens obtained from a native 

 merchant trading between British territory and Kabul, 

 and which seem to belong to this species, the spines are 

 narrowly tipped with black, succeeded by a narrow blackish 

 band, which is followed by a broad white band, in its tura 

 succeeded by a narrow obscure dusky area, the base of the 

 spine being white. 



The type is in too poor a condition to gain a correct idea 

 regarding the character of the fur, but Captain Hutton has 

 described the face, inside of the ears, and chin, as far as the 

 base of the ears, very pale cinereous, or nearly white; from 

 thence all the under parts are sooty, or rusty black ; head, 

 limbs, and under parts clothed with soft hairs of a sooty black 

 or fuliginous brown ; feet darkest ; tail black. la the two 

 specimens purchased from the Kabul merchant the ears, the 

 sides of the head from the ears to the chin, are white, while the 

 front of the face is whitish,, mixed with black haire, giving a 

 curious appearance, as described by Hutton ; the under parts • 

 are rusty black; the limbs dark brown. 



The skull of the type of E. megalolig was not in the 

 collections made over by. the Asiatic Society to the Govern- 

 ment of India. The skulls, however, of the two other speci- 

 mens, which may be regarded as examples of this species, , 

 present a close resemblance to the skull of E. macracanihus, 

 but they are very much larger than the skulls of ycxj old 

 examples of that species, and the muzzle of the skull is shorter 

 and broader, and there is relatively greater width of the post- 

 orbital contraction. The teeth also are very much larger, 

 but the species are undoubtedly very closely alUed. 



217. Erinaeeus macracanthus. 



Erinaceus macracanthus, Blanford, Eastern Persia, vol. ii, Zooloqu, 

 1876, p. 27, pi. 1, fig. 1, nee fig. 2. 



Hab. Highlands of Persia. 



217a. The skin of an adult female and its skull; free ends 

 of spines broadly tipped with black. Mdhun, near Karman, 

 South-Eastern Persia, 6,000 feet, 3rd May 187.2. W. T. 

 Blanford, Esq. Presented by the Persian Boundary Commis- 



