Descriptive Lint of the Rodents of South Africa. 237 



Journ., ii., p. 172 (1H34) ; WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii., p. 95 

 (1848) ; GRILL, k. Vet. Akad. Hancll. Stockholm, ii., p. 19 (1858) ; 

 LAYARD, Cat. Mam. S. Afr. Mus., p. 56 (1862); NOAK, Zool. Jahrb. 

 iv., p. 159 (1889) [Kalahari]. 



Lepus arcnaritis, Is. GEOFFROY, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., ix., 

 p. 383 (1825) [Port Natal]. 



Lepus ocliropus, WAGNER, Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., iv., p. 96 

 (1844). 



Description. General colour speckled black and yellowish brown, 

 the hairs somewhat coarser than that of the other species, woolly 

 and pale slate colour at the base, the tips yellowish brown with a 

 sub-terminal band of black ; sides paler somewhat rufous, below 

 white tinged with rufous ; chin pale yellowish, chest pale brownish, 

 outside of the limbs with a rufous tinge, round the eye a pale almost 

 white ring ; ears moderate, about 4^ in. in length from the point of 

 coalescence of the margins to the tip, almost naked anteriorly, 

 posteriorly w r ith the inner half thickly clothed with short almost 

 black hairs, the tips and upper margins quite black ; nape and 

 occiput grey not rufous ; feet clothed with comparatively short hairs 

 so that the claws are hardly hidden ; tail rather long, jet-black above 

 pure white below. 



Dimensions (from a stuffed specimen). Head and body 23-0; 

 tail 4-0 ; hind foot 4-50 ; from ear to tip of nose 4-5 ; skull length 

 3 -42, breadth 1-55 ; upper molars '54. 



Distribution. The Cape Hare is found almost everywhere through- 

 out the Colony, and extends northwards through Angola to French 

 Congo on the West Coast, and through Natal, Mozambique, and 

 German East Africa to Kilimanjaro on the East Coast ; it has been 

 noticed by Kirby in the Eastern Transvaal, but hitherto its occur- 

 rence in Ehodesia and Nyassaland has not been authenticated. It 

 is common in the immediate neighbourhood of Cape Town, w T hence 

 come the examples in the South African Museum. 



LEPUS SAXATILIS, THE EOCK HARE. 



Lcpus saxatilis, F. CUVIER, Diet. Sci. Nat., xxvi., p. 309 (1823) ; 

 A. SMITH, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., ii., p. 173(1834); SMUTS, Enum. 

 Mam. Cap., p. 52 (1832) ; WATERHOUSE, Nat. Hist. Mam., ii., p. 92, 

 pi. i., fig. 1 (1848) ; LAYARD, Cat. Mam. S. Afr. Mus., p. 56 (1862). 



Lepus rnfinucha, A. SMITH, Zool. Journ., iv., p. 440 (1829). 



Lepus fumiyattiK, WAGNER, Schreb. Saugeth. Suppl., iv., p. 98 

 (1844). 



