166 MAMMALIA. 



IV.— Family CENTETID^. 



Genus EEieULUS, Is. GeofE. St. Hilaire, 1839. 



219. Ericulus setosus. 



Tendrae, Buffon, Nat. Hist. t. xii, 1764, p. 438, pi. 57. 



Erinaceus setosus, Schreber. Sdugeth. Bd. iii, 1778, p. 583, pi. 164 ; ibid. 



Waffner. 

 Ericulus nigrescens, Is. Ojoff. St. Sil., Mag. de Zool. pis. 1. a 4, 1839 ; 



p. 33, pis. 3 & 4 ; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 73, pi. v, {skeleton). 

 Ericulus spinosus, Is. Q-eoff. St. Hil.. 1. c. p. 34 ; Wagner, Schreber, 



Sdiugeth. Suppl. Bd. v, 1855, p. 584. 



Uab. Madagascar. 



219a. The skeleton of an adult. Madagascar. By ex- 

 change with the British Museum, 6th January 1879. 



Genus CENTETES, Illiger, 1811: 



220. Centetes ecaudatus. 



Le Taurec, Bufon, Bat. Rist. t. xii, 1766, p. 438, pi. 56. 



Erinaceus ecaudatus, Gmelin, linn. Syst.Nat. 13tli ed. 1788, p. 117, 



partim, nee le jeune tanrec, Buffon, = Hemicentetes. 

 Centetes ecaudatus, Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 69. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



220«. The skin of an adult. Madagascar. By exchange 

 with the British Museum, 6th January 1879. 



b. The skeleton of an adult. Madagascar. By exchange 

 with the British Museum, 6th January 1879. 



Genus HEMICENTETES, Mivart, 1871. 



221. Hemicentetes madagascariensis. 



Le jeune tanrec, Buffon, Nat. Hist. Suppl. t. iii, 1776, p. 214, pi., xxxvii. 

 Erinaceus madagascariensis, Shaio, Genl. Zool, vol. 1, pi. ii, 1800, p, 



548; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 58, figs. 1, 2, and 3 



[skull). 

 Ericius seniispinosus, CHebel, Zeitsch. Ges. Natur, 1871, p. 57, pi. ii, 



figs. 1 to 3. 



Ilah, Madagascar. 



221o. The skeleton of an adult. Madagascar. By exchano-e 

 with the British Museum, 6th January 1879. 



