LEPUS NETSCIIERr. 217 



NOTE XXXIII. 



ON LEPUS NETSCHERI SCHLEGEL, EELIS MEGA- 

 LOTIS MULLER AND ANOA SANTENG DUBOIS 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



August 1891. 



Lepus netscheri SchlegeL 



The type-specimen of this species described by me in 

 the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1880, p. 62, has 

 been figured on plate 1 of the work entitled: » Bijdragen 

 tot de kennis der Fauna van Midden-Sumatra, 1887". 

 Although there is no reason to suppose that it is a very 

 rare species , it nevertheless si a fact that it very seldom 

 has been observed. 



Mr. P. J. van Houten, formerley at Padang, related 

 (see Fauna van Midden -Sumatra , p. 23) that he was told 

 that there has been seen a Hare in a coff'eeplantation in 

 the neighborhood of Padang. 



In March 1887 Mr. J. L. Weyers at Païnan, West 

 Sumatra, wrote to Mr. C. Ritsema Cz., the well known 

 Entomologist in the Leyden Museum , about Lepus netscheri 

 as follows : 



»En décembre 1881 Mr. I, A. Harten, Directeur-gérant 

 de la mine de Salida, qui occupe encore actuellement les 

 mêmes fonctions , se trouvait avec le mecanicien de la mine 

 sur les bords de la bale de Païnan , surveillant le débarque- 

 ment d'une machine , a peu de distance du promontoire 

 situe a la partie septentrionale de cette baie et qui fait 

 face a deux petites iles, nommees Poeloe tjinko besaar et 



Notes from the Lieyden Museum , Vol. XIII. 



