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Show 1895.1 HEDGEHOG FROM SOMALILAND. 419 not so rounded as those of E. sclateri. The longer spines of E. frontalis have exceedingly narrow yellowish tips, with a very broad dark brown band below them, so that the animal has a dark colour almost like E. collaris of India; whereas in E. sclateri the spines are broadly tipped with white succeeded by a brown band, but not so broad or dark as in E. frontalis, so that the coloration of this Hedgehog is nearly white, but with an orange-brown tint. In E. frontalis the face from behind the angle of the mouth, through the eye, and between the eyes to the nose is russet-brown. The shoulder, fore limbs, a band across the chest, the bodv, and hind limbs are dark russet-brown; the remaining parts, viz., the forehead, the front of the ears, the side of the neck, and the chest behind the brown pectoral band, are white. By these differences in coloration the two species are at once distinguished from one another, while their specific distinctness is established by the other structural dissimilarities already enumerated. Tbis species is only known from Somaliland. This genus is represented in Africa by six species, viz., E. algirus, Duv. & Lereboullet, E. frontalis, A. Smith, E. sclateri, E. albiventris, Wagner, E. cethiopicus, Ehr., and E. auritus, Gmelin; and the following is their synonymy and distribution:- 1. ERINACEUS ALGIRUS, Duv. & Lereb. Erinaceus algirus, Duv. & Lereboullet, M e m . de la Soc. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. de Strasbourg, iii. (1840) pp. 4-5; Dobson, Monogr. Insect, pt. i., Jan. 1882, p. 12 (external characters only); Lataste (F.), Act. Soc. Bordeaux, xxxix. (1885) p. 200 ; Explor. Sc. de la Tunisie, Cat. Crit. des Mammif. 1887, p. 5, et Suppl. pp. 39-41. Erinaceus krugi, Peters, SB. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1877, p. 78 ; Dobson, op. cit. pp. 11, 12. Erinaceus fall ax, Dobson, op. cit. pp. 9, 10. Erinaceus deserti, Dobson, op. cit. pp. 12, 13 (cranium). Distribution. Tripoli, Tunisia, Algeria, and Marocco (Tetuan). 2. ERINACEUS FRONTALIS, A. Smith. Erinaceus capensis, Andrew Smith, Phil. Mag. & Annals of Phil. vol. ix. Jan.-June 1831, pp. 61, 62 (nomen nudum). Erinaceus frontalis, Andrew Smith, South Afr. Quart. Journ. vol. i. (1830) no. 5, Oct. 1831, p. 10; ibid. vol. ii. Dec. 1833, p. 61; 111. of South African Zoology, 1849, plate iii. ( $ ) ; Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. (1832) p. 193; Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. (1841) p. 21; Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, lvi. 1867, p. 854. Erinaceus capensis, Smith, T. Smuts, Diss. Zool. Enum. M a m m. Cap. 1832, p. 8. Erinaceus diadematus, Dobson, op. cit. p. 10 (nee E. diadematus, Wiirttemb., Fitz.). Distribution. South-western Africa, Benguella to the Cape of Good Hope. 27* |
