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as well as by its different colouration. There is a considerable naked 

 space over the sacrum and on the dorsum of the tail as in other 

 species. The snout is seminude, being sparsely covered by very 

 minute hairs. Behind the whiskers, the hairs become much more 

 numerous and larger, and the area below the eye and the forehead 

 are well clad. The greater part of the front of the ear is nude, 

 but there is a sprinkling of short white hairs internal to and 

 along its margins. The chin and below the lower lips are almost 

 naked, and, immediately behind the chin, the hairs are few. The under 

 parts are well clad, but not densely so, and the limbs are thinly clad, 

 more especially the feet, on which the hairs are very few and short. 

 The tail also is only sparsely clothed. 



The general colour of the animal is blackish-brown or brown, the 

 spinous portion of the body being darkest. The front of the face, from 

 the nose backwards to the spines, the limbs and all the underparts, 

 with the exception of the chin and a line from it upwards to the ear, 

 which are white, are generally dark-brown or fuliginous-brown, blackish 

 on the face, on which there is occasionally a considerable intermixture 

 of white hairs. The hairs which clothe the ears, and a tuft of hairs 

 at the base of the anterior margin of the ears are white. The white 

 on the chin is more prolonged upwards to the ears in some specimens 

 than in others, giving rise to a kind of white collar which is much 

 exaggerated in the figure of E. collaris. The claws are horny yellow. 

 The following are the measurements of this species : — 



Males. Females. 



Length of body and head 6-85 6-70 6-70 



„ tail 0-96 1-30 1-02 



Height of ear , ]-45 1'52 TSS 



Breadth of ear 097 0-97 1-00 



Snout to eye 1-00 0'49 0-62 



Eyetoear 0-52 0-49 0-62 



Length of hind foot without claws 1-45 1'45 1-50 



Breadth of hind foot 0-40 0-45 0-38 



Hob. — Sind, (Kurrachee), Rajpootana, Ajraeer and on the Sutlej. 



Erinaceus Jerdoni, Anderson, J. A. 8. Bengal, vol. xlvii. pt. ii. 

 1878, pi. V. a. ; Dohsnn, Monog. Insectivora, pt. i. p. 16; Murray, Hdhk., 

 Zool., S[-c,, Sind, p. 80. 



PlATK V. 



Muzzle moderately long and pointed. Ears large, rounded at the 

 tips and broad at the base. Feet lai'ge, more especially the forefeet, 

 which are broad and powerful, with strong claws. The hind feet are 

 well developed, but proportionately not so large as the forefeet. A 

 large well developed pad on the under aspect of the hind foot. Claws 

 strong. The tail moderately long. The spines begin on a line with 

 the anterior margin of the ear divided on the vertex by a large nude 

 area as in E. miarupus and E. pietus. The spines are not very thick, 

 and they are marked generally with 19 grooves and 19 ridges, the latter 

 exceeding the breadth of the former and being very sharp, with the 



