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Show 420 ON A NEW HEDGEHOG FROM SOMALILAND. [May 21, 3. ERINACEUS SCLATERI, n. sp. Distribution. Somaliland. 4. ERINACEUS ALBIVENTRIS, Wagner. Erinaceus albiventris, Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, p. 22 ; Dobson, op. cit. p. 11. Erinaceus pruneri, Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. vol. ii. 1841, p. 23. Peroechinus pruneri, Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, t. lvi. 1867, p. 856. Peroechinus albiventris, Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, t. lvi. 1867, p. 857. Erinaceus heterodactylus, Sundevall, Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. (1841), Stockholm, 1842, p. 227. Erinaceus diadematus, Prinz Paul, Riippell, Mus. Senck. t. iii. (1845) p. 159 (nomen nudum); Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, t. lvi. 1867, p. 853. Erinaceus adansoni, de Roehebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7) t. vii. 1883, p. 7. Distribution. Senegambia across Central Africa, southwards to Ukamba and northwards to Somaliland. Tbis species has been obtained in tbe following localities:- Senegal; Saint Louis; Cape Verd; Joal; MacCarthy's Island, Biver Gambia; Accra, Fantee ; Porto Seguro, Togo; Gaboon; Kitui, Ukamba; Tabora; Kase; Kilima Njaro; Wakilomi, District of Maka ; Central Somaliland ; Sennaar; Kordofan ; and region of Upper Nile. 5. ERINACEUS CETHIOPICUS, Ehrenberg. Erinaceus cethiopicus, Ehr. Symbolse Phys. Decas ii. 1832. Erinaceus auritus, Biippell (non S. G. Gmelin), Neue Wirbelth. 1835, p. 40, in part; Tristram, Survey of West Palestine, 1884, p. 24. Erinaceus senaarensis, Hedg. Isis, 1839, p. 5. Erinaceus br achy dactylus, Wagner, Saugeth. Suppl. ii. 1841, p. 24. Hemiechinus pallidus, Fitzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, 1867, p. 866. Erinaceus platyotis, Dobson (nee Sundevall), op. cit. p. 12. Erinaceus deserti, Loche, Cat. Mammif., &c, de 1'Algerie, 1858, p. 20; Dobson, op. cit. pp. 12, 13 (nee cranium); Lataste, Act. Soc. Bordeaux, xxxix. 1885, p. 202; Explor. Sc. de la Tunisie, Cat. Crit. des Mammif. 1887, p. 5, et Suppl. pp. 39-41. Erinaceus algirus, Dobson, op. cit. p. 12 (cranium). Distribution. Upper Nile Valley, Sennaar to Abyssinia, the Bed Sea littoral (Suakin), and northwards to Nubia (Dongola). 6. ERINACEUS AURITUS, S. G. Gmelin. Erinaceus auritus, S. G. Gmelin, Nov. Comment. Petrop. xiv. 1770, p. 519, tab. xvi.; Pallas, ibid. p. 573, tab. xxi. fig. 4; Geoffroy St.-Hilaire & Audouin, Descr. de PEgypte, Hist. Nat. ii. (1827) pp. 737-739, pi. 5. fig. 3; Audouin, ibid. pp. 745, 746, Suppl. pi. i. (skull and teeth); Dobson, Monogr. p. 16. |