Hemiechinus collaris (Gray, 1830) . In Hardwicke, Illust. Indian Zool., 1, pl.8.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Doab", restricted by Wroughton (1910:81) to "between Jumna and Ganges Rivers", India; see discussion in Wroughton (1910:81) .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan and NW India.

SYNONYMS: grayi, indicus, spatangus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Hemiechinus . Formerly included in auritus, but Roberts (1977) indicated that there is discontinuity in distribution and morphology between collaris (which he called auritus collaris) and auritus (which he called megalotis).