Hemiechinus nudiventris (Horsfield, 1851) . Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. India Co., p. 136.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Madras" = Madras city or Tamil Nadu province, India .

DISTRIBUTION: Few records from the S Indian provinces Madras (= Tamil Nadu) and Travancore (= Kerala).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Paraechinus . Biswas and Ghose (1970) gave nudiventris specific rank while Corbet (1988:156-157) regarded it as a distinct subspecies of micropus . Provisonally listed as a species, following Frost et al. (1991:29).