ERINACEUS FRONTALIS. — Smith. 
Mammalia.— Plate III. (Female.) 
E. spinis V.™ ri l-i» * a P i«» dbU, in medio P”P— ^ 
qil ib„,di, brunneis * *. * *., («. »bnig* »t gn». ; f~» *** *•. — *■ 
oblongis pills brevibus obtectis. 
Longitudo 7^ Rnc. 
Ertnaceus frontalis, Smith , South African Quarterly Journal, No. 5. Oct. 1831. 
Euinaceus frontalis, Bennet, Proceedings Zoological Society, Dec. 1832. 
Colour, &c.-The head and the sides of the neck and of the body blackish 
brown, slightly variegated by an intermixture of greyish white hairs ; e 
forehead and the sides of the neck, immediately under the ears, pure white 
the quills of the back white, each annulated towards the middle wi i P™P > 
the points of many of them light brown. The under surface of t he neek the 
middle of the breast and belly, and the lower half of the limbs dus y u 
tail black ; eyes very deep brown ; claws horn-coloured. 
Form, &c.-Body oval, broadest behind and wider in proportion to its 
length than in the common Hedge-hog . Muzzle slightly elongate , 
of upper jaw much separated, those of lower jaw nearly contiguous ; ears 
moderately long, and both surfaces thinly covered with short hair, the ips 
somewhat rounded. The hack and the upper part of the sides dense y 
covered with spines from an inch to an inch and a half in length, the re 
the body, the legs and the head thinly coated with bristly hair; tail slender, 
limbs very long ; toes short ; claws blunt and slightly curved. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Distance between the tip of the nose 
and the eye 1 3 
the eye and the ear... 0 9 
0 5 
Inches. Lines 
Length from the tip of the nose to the 
base of the tail 1 ® 
of the tail ® ® 
Height at the middle of the back. 
The male, as regards the colours, is like the female. 
