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SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM THE MAMMAL SURVEY. 



No. XVII. 

 (^l). — The Shan States Langur. — A Correction. 



BY 



R. C. Wkoughton. 



In the last number of this Journal (p. 4G) I described a series of 

 laugurs obtained by our Survey in the Shan States. I took (and 

 gave) much trouble, in making sure that the species could not be 

 barbel, Blyth, and concluded to give it the name shanicus. I regret to 

 say that I completely overlooked a specimen in the British Museum 

 Collection, obtained at Bhamo, by Fea, which Dr. Elliot made the 

 type of his species melamervs, (A. M. N. H. S. 8, p. 267, 1909). 

 This cannot be distinguished in anj^ way from shanicus. The Shan 

 States langur must, therefore, be known as P. melamenis, Elliot, 

 with P. shanicus, as a synonym. 



(B). — A NEW Indian Hare. 



BY 



R. C. Wroughton. 



In connection with a summary of the results from our Mammal 

 Survey, I have recently had to re-examine all the hares in the 

 British Museum Collection. Among them I have found a series 

 sufficiently distinct from the rest to deserve a name of its own. 



It consists of four specimens, taken near the Sambhar Lake, in 

 Rajputana, more than thirty years ago. These are allied by their 

 brown-coloured scuts to ruficaudatus, Geoff., but their general 

 coloration is so markedly and evenly like that of so many animals 

 inhabiting sandy wastes, and at the same time so distinct from the 

 coloration of all their neighbours, that it seems to me that I am 

 justified in giving them a name. I propose to call them 



LePUS RAJPUT, sp. n. 



A hare about the size oi ruficaudalas, Geoff., or simcoxi, Wr., but 

 differing from both by its bright buff colouring. 



General colour above " tawny olive." The individual hairs of 

 the lower back are white at their bases (8mm.) and thereafter a band 

 of buff (12mm.) between a black band and a black tip (each 

 3-5mm.). Tail coloured like the back above, white below. Face 

 and ears coloured quite like the back, but with the usual white 

 blaze through the eyes. The nape and limbs ochraceous. The 

 chin and belly pure white merging gradually into the buffy flanks. 



