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edge of spiny area to tail, but throughout this region it is overlaid 

 by the uniform light cream-buff of underparts. Spines very dark 

 drab with light cream-buff tips, the light area shorter on spines 

 of middle of back than on those of sides, thus producing a slight 

 though evident darker median dorsal area. Feet so injured that 

 colour cannot be determined. 



Skull and teeth. — The imperfect skull shows no peculiarities. 

 Teeth as in specimens from the mainland. 



Measurements. — Type (sex not known) : head and body, 252 ; 

 tail, 50 ; hind foot, 40. For cranial measurements see Table, 

 p. 125. 



Specimen examined. — The type. 



Remarks. — If not an abnormal specimen of E. europseus italicus 

 the type of consolei represents a very distinct local race. 



1. Palermo, Sicily. J. I. S. Whitaker (p). 98. 10. 6. 1. 



(Type of subspecies.) 



ERINACEUS ROUMANICUS Barrett-Hamilton. 



1900. Erinaceus europseus roumanicus Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist., 7th ser., v, p. 365, April, 1900. (Gageni, Boumania.) 

 Type in British Museum. 



1901. Erinaceus danubicus Matschie, Sitz.-Ber. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. 



Freunde, Berlin, p. 229, December, 1901. (Prundu, Boumania.) 

 1910. Erinaceus europssus roumanicus and E. europseus danubicus Troues- 

 sart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, pp. 40-41. 



Type locality. — Gageni, Prahova, Roumania. 



Geographical distribution. — -From eastern Germany (Konigs- 

 berg) and northern Bohemia south through Hungary, into 

 Greece. 



Diagnosis. — In general like Erinaceus europseus, but colour of 

 furred parts usually much darker, and chest often with a large, 

 conspicuously contrasted whitish area ; skull with upper length of 

 maxillary greater than depth of rostrum at middle ; teeth 

 essentially as in E. europseus, but first upper premolar with 

 postero-basal cusp usually more distinct. 



Colour. — Furred area dark hair-brown interspersed with buffy 

 and whitish hairs, the former most numerous on sides, the latter 

 forming a clear whitish pectoral area which sometimes spreads 

 over entire underparts. Feet and tail sepia. Face usually with 

 a seal-brown suffusion. Claws blackish horn-colour. Quills 

 with colours usually less contrasted than in E. europseus, the 

 general effect of the spiny area darker and less speckled. 



Skull and teeth. — The skull differs from that of E. europseus 

 in the relatively longer, less deepened rostrum, a peculiarity 

 which seems chiefly to involve the maxillary bone. Upper length 

 of maxillary greater than depth of rostrum at middle. Posterior 



