1. BCHIDlfA. 381 



i. Ad. sk. West Australia. Baron yon Miiller 



[P.]. 



/. Skeleton. W. Austr?,lia. Purchased. 



k. Ad. St., c?. Eev. F. W. Hope 



[P.]. 



7 J Ad. & inun. sks. I Haslar Hospital 



"'• 1 Skulls of ; & i»i. f Collection. 



0. Skeleton. . Purchased. 



c. Echidna aculeata, var. setosa. 



"Another species of Omithorhynchus," Some, Phil. Trans. 1802, 



p. 364, pi. xiii. (animal). 

 Echidna setosa, E. Geoff. Cat. Mus. p. 226 (note) (1803) (ex Home) ; 



id. Bull. Sac. Philom. iii. " no. 77, p. 226 (misprinted 126), pi. xv. 



(animal) (1803) ; Besm. N. Diet. d'M. N. (1) xxiv., Tabl. Meth. 



p. 27 (1804) ; id. op. eit. (2) x. p, 53 (1817) ; O. Guv. H. A. i. 



p. 226 (1817) ; Schinz, Cm. Thierr. i. p. 339 (1821) ; Desm. 



Mamm. ii. p. 37.9 (1822) ; F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxvi. p. 448 



(1825) ; Gray, Griff. Cm. An. K. v. p. 284 (1827) ; Quoy ^ 



Gaim. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 118, Atl. pi. xxi. (beak, &c.) 



(1830) ; Less. N. Tabl. JR. A., Mamm. p. 196 (1842) ; Gray, List 



Mamm. B. M. p. 192 (1843) ; Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 47, 



pi. i. figs. 7-9 (beak and feet) (1846) ; GoiM, Mamm. Austr. i. 



pi. iii. (animal) (1849) ; Gunn, P. Roy. Soc. Tasm.n. p. 89 (1852); 



Gieh. Saug. p. 399 (1859) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. 



p. 289 (1862); Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mm. p. 55 (1864); 



Gray, Handl. Edentates, p. 31 (1873) : Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. 



p. 326 (1887). 

 Echidna breviaculeata, Tiedem. Zool. i. p. 592 (1808). 

 Tachyglossus setosus, III. Prodr. Syst: Mamm. p. 114 (1811) ; Gold/. 



Zool. p. 409 (1820) ; Glog. Handb. Naturg. i. p. 116 (1842) ; Wagn. 



Schr. Saug. Supp. iv. p. 244 (1844). 

 Echinopus setosus, G. Pisch. Zoogn. iii. p. 694 (1814). 

 " Echidna brevicaudata, Tiedem.," Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 386. 

 Echidna aculeata setosa, Thos. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 338, pi. xxiii. figs. C 



& D (skull), and pi. xxiv. figs. A, B, 0, & E (skull and claws). 

 Haiet Echidna. 



Size averaging larger than in the typical variety. Fur covering 

 head, sides, belly, and Umbs, composed of hairs only, not mixed with 

 bristles. Colour of head generally markedly paler than that of the 

 rest of the body. Dorsal spines short and stout, exceeded in length 

 and more or less hidden by tjie hairs growing between them, those 

 of the shoulders, flanks, and hips, however, still remaining longer 

 than the fur. Hairs of back dark brown, those of the belly rather 

 paler ; chest commonly with a variable patch of white hairs. Claws 

 of hind feet markedly different in their proportions from those of the 

 typical variety, the third claw being very nearly as long and strong 

 as the second, and much exceeding the fourth and fifth. Exceptions 

 and intermediate conditions occur, however, in this as in the other 

 distinguishing characters of the variety. 



Shull, especially the brain-case, very large and broad (cranial 

 capacity 27 to 37 e. cm.). Eostrum comparatively short and stout. 

 Condyloid vacuities generally present. 



