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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Order INSECTIYORA. 
Family — E TtINA CEITJjE. 
7. Erinacetjs albtjlus. PI. I, fig. 2, and PI. Ia, fig. 1. 
Ecrinaceus albivenhis, Wagner, apud Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 113, nec Wagner. 
Erinaceus ( Hemiechinus ) albulus, Stoliczka, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1872, xli, 
Pt. 2, p. 226. 
? E. auritus , Prejevalski, Pet. Mitt. Erg. Hgt. No. 53, p. 9. 
Kirpa, Turki of Yarkand. 
1 (skin) Karghalik, south of Yarkand ; 2, 3, 4 (skins) ; 5 (skeleton) Yarkand ; 6, 7 (skins) Yangihissar ; ® 
(skin) Jigda, north of Kashghar. 
The type of this species was obtained by Dr. Henderson when accompanying the fi* 6 * 
Yarkand Expedition, and presented to the Indian Museum, Calcutta. This specimen 
obtained a little north of Sanju. The following is Dr. Stoliczka’s original description of th e 
species (l. c .) : — - 
“ Snout very long and pointed, ears moderate, ovate at tip ; spines irregularly placed) 
much as in pictus? hut comparatively longer and thicker ; each of them is dusky at the hasC) 
then up to half its length purely white, followed by a blackish-brown ring, its breadth beio$ 
only about one-fifth of the total length, tip largely white and rather abruptly pointed, the 
result being a prevalence of white colour on the upper surface of the body. There is no p er ' 
ceptible nude space between the ears, and the spines begin immediately on the hind neck 
and the largest on the back are fully one inch long. Each spine is surrounded by 24 to 
fine longitudinal furrows, separated by minutely tuberculated ridges, scarcely wider than the 
furrows. The tail is almost as short as in pictus. 
“ Head entirely rufescent above and at the sides, except the upper mandible towards th e 
angle of the mouth, this being white ; base of ears also white, as well as the entire under' 
side, which is thickly set with long hairs passing into a slight rufescent shade on the sid e& 
of the belly. Ears, lower portions of front and hind feet, and tail dusky-brownish, beuk? 
thickly intermixed with short white hairs ; moustache brown, whitish towards the tip. ClaY s 
strong, five on each foot, very pale-brownish. 
“ The only specimen measures very nearly seven inches; the ear slightly exceeds one inch » 
distance from tip of snout to the angle of the mouth not quite one ; to the ear slightly m 01 ' 1 ’ 
than one and a half inches. Dr. Henderson gives the locality ‘Langur near Sanju, Yarkand 
and the native name ‘ Iceepa .’ 2 
“ The only known form to which the present species is closely allied is E. lybic^’ 
Ehrenb., which has similarly grooved and similarly coloured spines, but they are decidedly 
shorter, and the colouration of the other parts of the body is different.” 
1 E. pictus is a species described from Cutch by Dr. Stoliczka. It is very closely allied to E. micropus, of which it ma y 
be more than a variety, but it appears always to possess a malar bone, which is wanting in the skull of E. micropus. Anders® 11 ' 
J. A. S. B., 1878, xlvii, Pt. 2, p. 201. 
s This is a misreading or misprint : the name is ‘Tcirpa.’ 
