LEPUS NKTSCHERr. 219 



Peut-être est ce bien la Ie cas et peut-être aussi nous 

 trouvons-nous en presence d'un de ces cas de localisation 

 tres restreinte et assez étrangement exceptionnelle , comme 

 on en rencontre assez souvent en entomologie, mais qui 

 sont beaucoup plus rares pour les mammifères. Les rares 

 naturalistes qui ont parcouru l'intérieur de Sumatra ont 

 peut-être passé quelquefois pres du Lepus netscheri sans 

 s'en douter." 



I am very indebted to Mr. Ritsema for the kind per- 

 mission to publish the foregoing letter , which v^ill interest 

 naturalists, the more as I can hereafter add an extract 

 from a letter received on June 23 last and written by 

 Mr. J, C. van Hasselt, Controller at Solok, Sumatra. Mr. 

 van Hasselt writes: »I possess a female specimen of Lepus 

 netscheri described in the Notes from the Leyden Museum , 

 1880. I procured the animal when alive: after its dead I 

 put it in spirits." Although some observations about the 

 living animal would have been very welcome , these short 

 lines suffice to convince us that a second specimen of 

 Lepus netscheri has now been secured, and I express the 

 hope that we will have it in Leyden at a not very 

 remote date. 



Felis megalotis S. Muller. 



Again a very rare species, only known from the type- 

 specimen in the Leyden Museum, described in the work 

 entitled: » Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiede- 

 nis der Nederlandsche Overzeesche Bezittingen, Zoölogie, 

 p. 54, 1839 — 44." — I am not aware that any travel- 

 ler or naturalist has seen the species or has brought over 

 a specimen. The type is a not adult specimen from Timor. 



Giebel (Die Saugethiere, 1855) remarked: »vielleicht 

 ist Miiller's Felis megalotis von Timor nur eine blosse 

 Varietat von Felis minuta Temminck." 



Blyth (P. Z. S. L. 1863, p. 186) said: ^> Felis megalotis 

 Temminck. Hab. Timor, (uon vidimus)." 



Notes Ironi the Leyden Museum, Vol. Xlil. 



