1847«] On a new Species of Porcupine. 



Scull. 



Length of intermax to occipital crest, 5 



Width of, hetween zygomse, 2 f-j- 



Width, greatest, between parietes, 2 



Ileigth, greatest, 2 



Length of upper jaw, to end of teeth, 2 



Lower jaw ditto ditto :.. 2 



Greatest width between upper molars, 1 y 



The same, lower molars, 1 -A- 



On a new Species of Porcupine.- — By the same. 



GLIRES VEL RODENTIA. 



Hystricidje. 



Hystricin,e. 



Genus Hystrix. 



Species new, H. alophus (alpha privitiva et Jockos a crest.) 



Crestless Porcupine. 



Anchotia Sahi vulgo. 



Habitat Sub-Himalayas. 

 It has often been surmised that there are two species of Porcupine m 

 India, but I am not aware that any one has yet discriminated the second 

 and rare species from the common one, or Leucurits. My hunters have 

 just brought me a fine old male of the second species above adverted 

 to, and I propose now to give a description of it, for it is very evidently 

 distinguishable from the common species both of Europe (cristata) 

 and of India (Leucurus) by its inferior size, by the total absence of 

 crest on its head or neck or shoulders, by its longer tail,* by the white 

 collar of the neck being evanescent, and lastly, by the inferior size and 

 smaller quantity of the spines or quills. 



The crestless Porcupine of the sub-Himalayas measures 22 to 24 

 inches from snout to vent, and stands about 8 inches high. Its weight 



* European species 3 feet long- and tail but 4 inches.— Cuv. III. p. 205) : Leucurus 

 still larger? Its tail all white and its crest reaching- to base of tail.— ( Zool. Jour. July, 

 1831, p. 103. 



