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1" 5"'. Bachmann remarks of V. subulatus, that it is identical with 
Murtrie’s V. lucifugus, and Green’s V. domestims, and that it is 
very widely distributed, as he has received this species from Carolina 
and Labrador during summer. V. carolinensis is found in autumn, 
winter, and spring ; but in summer appears to wander northwards, and 
is at that time plentiful in the State of New York. 
It should not here be omitted, that according to Blainville’s statement, 
Rhinopoma carolinense is a Molossus. 
INSECTIVORA. 
Aculeata. — Two new Monographs on the Hedgehogs have 
appeared since mine. 
One is by Burmeister in Ersch and Gruber’s Allgem. Encyclop. B^ 37 
(1842), under the article Erinaceus, and gives a careful and laborious 
comparison of what has hitherto been published on the family of the 
Hedgehogs. His opinion, that my Erinaceus alhiventris must be only a 
small individual of E. frontalis, of which I now possess a specimen, is 
altogether without good ground. 
The other monograph is by Sundevall (Ofversigt af slagtet Erinaceus, 
in the Sv. Vetenskaps Acad. Handl. 1841). I have received it as a 
separate pamphlet, through the editor of our Archives, for the volume 
in which it is contained will not appear until at a later period. Un- 
fortunately my Monograph of the Hedgehogs had not reached the author, 
although in the hands of the booksellers since 15th May, 1841, so that 
my E. alhiventris is omitted ; but definitions might have been given of 
two other species characterized by me (E. hrachydactylus saad pruneri). 
Sundevall’s monograph is rich in personal researches, and is a very valu- 
able contribution to the knowledge of the Hedgehogs. The following 
species are enumerated : — a. Erinacei aculeis varie intertextis, verticis 
prominentibus, non vel parum brevioribus ; pili in plerisque longiores, 
rigidi. 1. E. europceus : 2. E. frontalis, Smith: 3. E.concolor, Mart.: 
4. E. heterodactylus, Sund. ; “ griseus, auriculis magnis, digitis connexis, 
pedibus posticis 4 dactylis fromSennar: 5. E.cethiopicus. b. Erinacei 
aculeis densius positis, ordinatis, antrorsum sensim multo brevioribus (in 
Sp. quas vidi, numeri 6-8, pili corporis sunt breves densissimi molles, 
quasi lanei, auriculae magnae) : 6. E. aurictus, PaU. : 7. E. platyotis, 
Sund. : 8. E. (jegyptius, Geotfroy {E. lihycus, Ehrenb.) The author adds, 
as species of this division, which he has not seen, E. hypomelas, collaris, 
Grayi, spatangus ; and, finally, gives to that one mentioned by Pallas, 
from Dauuria, the name of E. dauuriciis. 
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