EEINACEID^. 21 



it had stopped in its rambles or when disturbed. Natives will not kill 

 it, on account of a very popular notion that the musky odour emitted 

 from the lateral glands is nauseous to snakes, and in consequence a 

 deterrent to their entering the house. They feed on beetles, crickets, &c. 



Family, ERINACEID.^,— Hedgehogs. 



Upper parts covered with spines, lower with stifEsh hairs and 

 bristles intermixed. Feet pentadactylous ; not foasorial. Tail very 

 short or none. 



!Erinaceus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 75; Mivart, Jour. Anat. 

 Phys. ii. p. 147. 



Incisors g^, pm. g^, m. ^^ =36 (Owen.) Incisors ^^, c j— j , 



pm. 2^, m. ^^ {Dobson. Anatomy of the Erinaceidce P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 402.) 



Upper middle incisors distant ; lower ones procumbent. No true 

 canines. Crown of molars square, tuberculate. Snout long. Ears 

 moderate. Tail short. Body above covered with spines ; spines 

 grooved and ridged, the ridges in some species minutely tuberculate. 



The number of species of this genus has been recently increased by 

 the investigations of Dr. J. Anderson, F. Z. S., &c.. Superintendent of 

 the Indian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Calcutta 

 Medical College. Up to the time of the publication of a revision 

 of the species by Dr. Anderson in the Journ. As. Socy., Bengal, 

 Vol. xlvii. Part ii., 1878, two species were only known within the limits 

 of India, recognized by Dr. Jerdon (Mammals of India) as Eyinaceus 

 collaris, Gray, and Erinaceus micropiis, Blyth, and distinguished by 

 him as the North Indian and South Indian Hedgehogs. Dr. Anderson 

 also notices several other species which were described before the 

 publication of Dr. Jerdon's Mammals of India as belonging to the 

 Indian and Himalayan fauna, — but these have necessarily, after careful 

 analysis of a large series of specimens from authentic localities, been 

 incorporated as synonyms of the four admitted good species and 

 referred to two distinct groups. Of these four species E. pidus, 

 E. Orayi and E. Jerdonii inhabit Sind, the fourth E. microious, before 

 identified as a Sind species, is now found to be confined to Southern 

 India. 



The three species, found in Sind, come under the following of 

 Dr. Anderson's groups : — 



A. Second upper peemolak simple, oke-panged. 



a. Feet club-shaped, soles tubercular. 



I. A division or bare area on the vertex. 



A perfect malar bone ; a brown band through the eyes and only 

 very rarely prolonged on to the neck, stopping at the angle of the mouth. 

 Spines yellowish, white at the apex, with a succeeding rather pale 



