170 Rough Notes on the Zoology of Candahar. [No. 170. 



always to be of a much darker and browner colour, resembling those from Nepal — 

 M. auropunctata of Hodgson, which name will, I believe, stand. 



Notes 19 and 20, p. 352 et seq. Hedgehogs. The Indian species of this genus 

 are still much in need of investigation. Four have received names, as follow : — 



1. E. collaris, Gray : founded upon Gen. Hardwicke's figure of a specimen obtained 

 in the * Dooab.' This is represented to have uniformly blackish spines, rather 

 large ears, which are greatly emarginated posteriorly, a blackish face, more rufous 

 chest, and a narrow band of pure white on the throat, commencing from the ear. In 

 Mr. Gray's recent catalogue of the mammalia in the British Museum, three specimens 

 referred to this animal are enumerated, one of them from Madras, presented by 

 Walter Elliot, Esq. 



2. E. spatangus, Bennet, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 123. 



3. E. Grayi, Bennet, ibid. p. 124. Both from the Himalaya, and referred " to that 

 extra European form of the genus Erinaceus, which is distinguished by the possession 

 of large ears." 



4. E. mentalis, Gray; " Black-chinned Hedgehog," from the Himalaya.— Seem- 

 ingly undescribed, being merely enumerated with the preceding three in Mr. Gray's 

 catalogue of the British Museum mammalia. 



Capt. Hutton's No. 19, from Afghanistan, to which I gave the provisional name 

 megalotis, would seem to approximate the E. spatangus ; but the difference of size is 

 too great to admit of the probability of their being young and adult of the same, the 

 advanced dentition of Mr. Bennet's specimen leading him to suppose it " probably 

 not fully adult, there being only two false molars on each side of the upper jaw." The 

 head and body of E. spatangus are given as but three inches and a quarter, tail a 

 quarter of an inch, ears three inches and a quarter, and tarse to end of claws an 

 inch. Capt. Hutton's recent Afghan specimen is described as about a foot in length, 

 minus the tail, the latter measuring an inch and a half. (?) The example of it sent, is 

 about the size of a moderately large European Hedgehog, with great ovate ears, an 

 inch and a quarter long, and seven-eighths in extreme breadth : tarse to end of claws 

 an inch and a half, tail but five-eighths ; entire length of skull, with projecting upper 

 incisors, two inches and a quarter. 



Of Capt. Hutton's No. 18, the first and second specimens mentioned by him are, I 

 suspect, rightly referred to E. collaris: but his third specimen seems, from the des- 

 cription, identical with one in the Society's museum, the locality of which is unknown, 

 and also with others from S. India, obligingly sent me on loan by Mr. Elliot, and to 

 which I suspect that Mr. Gray's ' Madras' specimen (presented by Mr. Elliot,) and 

 probably the two others referred by him to E. collaris, likewise appertain. The 

 crania and dentition of an adult sent by Mr. Elliot, and that of the Society's specimen, 

 correspond exactly: but Capt. Hutton's skull of the Bhawulpore Hedgehog presents 

 some differences ; the general form is rather shorter and broader, it is more constricted 

 between the orbits, and the zygomse are considerably more projecting; the small 

 upper pre-molar anterior to the scissor-tooth is less minute ; and in the lower jaw, the 

 second lateral pair of incisors from the front are much smaller, as indeed are also the 

 next or last pair of the true incisors. If new, I propose to call this species E. micro- 

 pus. 



Another Asiatic hedgehog, additional also to E. auritus of Siberia, and nearly 

 allied to the European species, is E. concotor, Martin. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 103, des- 

 cribed from a specimen received from Trebizond.-— Cur. As. Soc. 



