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 skiu without skull and adult skull unsexed, 

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

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

 10278 (skin) ; 10279 (skull). 



A form belonging to the section dayanus^ with long broad ears and 

 soft pelage. Larger than L. d. craspedotis ^ from Baluchistan (type 



Figs. 1, la. — Nasal bones and auditory bullae of Lepus daynnus, Blanford, from Narra, 



Sind. 

 Figs. 2, 2a. — Same bones of type of Lepus dayanus craspedotis, Blanford, from Pishin, 



Persian Baluchistan. 

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



S. W. Persia. 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 633 ; type from Sukkur, Sind. 



« 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. 



