VI. A NEW RACE OF HARE FROM THE PERSIAN 

 FRONTIER OF MESOPOTAMIA. 



By H. C. Robinson, C.M.Z.S. 



Lepus day anus connori, subsp. no v. 



Lepus craspedotis, Thomas {nee Blanford), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905 (2), p. 527. 



Co-types : — Adult male skin without skull and adult skull unsexed, 

 between Ahwaz and Mohammerali, Karun R., Persia, collected on 

 October 30tli, 1917, by Lt.-Col. F. P. Connor, I.M.S. Ind. Mus. Nos. 

 10278 (skin) ; 10279 (skull). 



^ f^T-1 11 hplnnpino- to the section dm/anus^ with long broad ears and 



EREATUM 

 Figs. 1 and 2 have been accideu tally transposed. Fig. 1 repre- 

 sents the skull of Lepus day anus crasptdotis; fig. 2 that of Lepus 

 dayanus dayanus. 



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Figs. 1, \a. — Nasal bones and auditory bullae of Lepus dayanus, Blanford, from Narra, 



Sind. 

 Figs. 2, 2a. — Hrx^q hones, oiiyTjye oi Lepus dayanus craspedotis, Blanford, from Pisliin, 



Persian Baluchistan. 

 Figs. 3, 3a. — Same bones of co-type of Lepus dayanus connori, nov., from Karun R., 



S. W. Persia. 



1 Proc. Zool. sSoc. 1874, p. G33 ; type from Sukkur, Sind. 



2 Blanford, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) XVI, p. 313 (1875) ; id., Zool. East. Persia, II. 

 p 80, pi. viii (1875) ; type from Pishin, S. Baluchistan, examined. 



