Hemiechinus micropus (Blyth, 1846) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 15:170.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Bhawulpore" = Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan .

DISTRIBUTION: The arid zones of Pakistan and NW India.

SYNONYMS: intermedius, kutchicus, mentalis, pictus.

COMMENTS: Type species of subgenus Paraechinus . Biswas and Ghose (1970) regarded intermedius as a species but Corbet (1988:156-157) included it in Paraechinus micropus as a synonym.