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appreciable on inspection, and evidently of much importance in 

 a group showing such remarkable uniformity in cranial characters. 

 The auditory bulla? are relatively larger than in the other species, 

 so that, when skull is viewed from below, the area of each bulla 

 appears to be about equal to that of flat portion of basioccipital 

 in front of condyles. Anterior portion of zygoma strictly as in 

 L. europseus. Teeth rather small but not showing any special 

 peculiarities of structure. 



BeniarJcs. — The Iberian hare is at once distinguishable from 

 the other European members of the genus by the unusually 

 bright colour of the outer surface of the thighs and the presence 

 of white markings on the feet. The form of the skull is also 

 characteristic. Three local races are at present known. 



Lepus granatensis GRANATENSis Rosenhaucr. 



1856. Lc2)us granatensis Eosenhauer, Die Thiere Andalusiens, p. 3 

 (Granada). 



1867. [Lcpus] MsiMnicus Fitziuger, Sitzungsber. kais. Akad. Wissensch. 

 Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Classe, lvi, p. 161 (Substitute for grana- 

 tensis. " Natt." cited as authority). 



1897. Lepus meridionalis Graells, Mem. Eeal Acad. Sci., Madrid, xvii, 



p. 525 (Vicinity of Madrid). 



1898. Lepus lilfordi de Winton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th ser., i, 



p. 153, February, 1898 (Seville). Type in British Museum. 



1906. L[ep2is] cluro^jxtis] granatensis Hilzheimer, Zool; Anzeiger, xxx, 



p. 512, August 14, 1906. 



1907. Lepus granatensis granatensis Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 



7th ser., xx, pp. 399, November, 1907. 

 1910. Lepus granatensis Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 222. 



Type locality. — Granada, Spain, 



Geographical distribution. — The greater portion of Spain, 

 extending at least from the Province of Burgos to the south and 

 east coasts ; Balearic Islands. 



Diagnosis. — Ear long, its height from crown in dried 

 specimens 105-115 mm. ; general aspect pallid, the ground colour 

 of back nearly the cream-colour of Ridgway and much in excess 

 of black. 



Colour. — Underfur (17 mm.) bluish grey at base, the hairs 

 becoming buffy terminally, the extreme tips slightly darker but 

 not definitely black ; longer ^airs (30 mm.) greyish at base, then 

 black to tip, each with a conspicuous, sharply defined sub-terminal 

 annulation (4 mm.) of pale cream-buff". Clear area along sides 

 (ill-defined) between cinnamon-rufous and ochraceous-rufous, 

 becoming somewhat more dull on inguinal patches and darker 

 and brighter on outer surface of thighs. Outer side of front leg 

 a duller shade of the same colour ; inner surface white to wrist, 

 where the white crosses to upper surface and forms a conspicuous 

 patch on metacarpals. Collar pale wood-brown strongly washed 

 with pale dull ochraceous-buff". Chin somewhat dusky. 



