EEINACEUS ALBIVENTEIS. 
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from a hillock and having an insect, probably a grasshopper, in its mouth, and behind 
this is the perfect figure of the second. There also occur in one of the mural 
paintings at Beni Hasan, in the Tomb of Chnem-hotep i, of the Xllth Dynasty, two 
of these animals being carried in a basket. 
Another example is given in a fine hunting sculpture from Thebes of the Xlllth 
Dynasty, where a hedgehog is figured, according to Prisse’s drawing 2 , as having an 
insect in its mouth, and in this respect resembling the early representation in Ptah- 
hotep’s tomb. 
Hartmann has indicated that two species of hedgehogs can be distinguished in 
tombs of the Pyramids of Gizeh, Abusir, and Sakkarah, viz. E. Uhijcus and 
E. cethiopiciis of Ehrenberg. 
The representations at Beni Hasan are not determined. 
1 Beni Hasan, I. pi. xxx.; Lepsius, Denkm. Abth. ii. Bl. 3. 
2 Art Egyptien, ii. pi. 24. 
