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tolerably broad space extends from the bind head towards the middle of 
neck ; spines, beginning on neck slightly in advance of a line connecting the 
anterior basal edges of the ears, almost regular in young, but distinctly ir- 
regularly* interwoven in the more adult ; each spine white on the basal half, 
then with a broad blackish brown ring, followed by a yellowish white 
tip, only the extreme point appearing slightly dusky ; each is further 
surrounded by sixteen to twenty longitudinal grooves, separated by much 
broader and very finely tuberculated ridges ; the minute tubercles being 
laterally compressed. Limbs long and slender, each with five claws ; tail 
very short and concealed. 
Snout, extending on the upper side as far as between the eyes and from 
there stretching as an oblique band through the eyes to the base of the neck, 
dark brown with very few whitish hairs intermixed ; ground colour of ears 
brown, but thickly set with whitish hairs, lower jaw round the edges brown, 
chin and throat whitish tinged with brown in the young, almost perfectly 
white in adults ; fore-limb beginning at the middle of the forearm, the hind 
limbs entirely, including the region of the vent between them and at their sides, 
and the tail chocolate brown ; soles of feet blackish and all the claws white. 
Moustaches brown, whitish towards their tips, the longest nearly two inches. 
An oblique streak in front of and below the eye to the angle of the mouth, 
hind head and all round the neck, involving the base of the ears, the entire 
lower side from the chin, including nearly half the length of the fore-limbs, 
and extending backwards as far as the region between the liind-limbs white, 
the lower side being thinly clad wi th hairs which are throughout arranged in 
small tufts, each tuft evidently corresponding to a dorsal spine, as if each of 
the spines had been dissolved into its original component parts. 
Total length of a specimen 5'5 inches ; distance from tip of snout to 
anterior angle of eye 0'8 ; length of ear 055, and the greatest breadth 
about 04 ; length of carpus to tip of claws 08, the same of foot 1 inch, the 
heel tubercular ; tail 04 inches, thickly covered with hair. 
Besides this specimen which is the only one I preserved, I saw several 
others in the western part of Kachh, and some were decidedly larger ; one 
measured 63 inches, the distance from the tip of snout to the eye being 
nearly 1 inch, and to the base of the ear nearly T5 inch. There are also 
several specimens of tins species in the Indian Museum from the North West 
Provinces about Agra, and from Edjputfina. One of these measures nearly 
7 inches from tip of snout to end of tail. 
* The regularity of the spines seems very much to depend upon the attitude of 
the animal. When the animal is at rest, and the spines are in their natural position, 
they are as a rule regularly directed backwards, but the moment the animal rolls in its 
body, they become interwoven. 
