90 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XV, 



in section and well filled with cement (fig. 1) : very like those of 

 " Lepus yarkandensis ? " from Koko Nor figured by Forsyth-Major 

 {Trans. Linn. Sac, Zool, 2nd Ser., Vol. VII, p. 468, "fig. vii ; 1899); 

 and another specimen from Eastern Turkestan figured by Lyon {Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. XLV, p. 351, fig. 8 ; 1904). 



Lepus craspedotis. 



Blanfordj Eastern Persia, II, p. SO, pi. viii. 



No. 1322a. Nearly adult female (skin and skull) from Pishin, Balu- 

 chistan (W. T. Blanford coll.). Type of L. craspedotis. 



Pelage very soft, apparently greyish-buf5 speckled with blackish, 

 the rump greyest ; a pale area about the eye ; nape fulvous. Fore- 

 limbs brighter and more ochraceous than the body ; hind-feet whitish 

 or buffy white above, ochraceous below. Tail clear black above, 

 ungrizzled. Underparts white except the foreneck which is fulvous ; 

 lower abdomen clad with long hair. Ears apparently very large with a 

 long fringe of hair along their upper edge. Groove in upper incisors in 

 shape a rather acute isosceles triangle about half filled with cement 

 (% 2). 



The skulls of this animal and of L. yarkandensis (No. 3782 antea) 

 differ from all the following in the relative narrowness of their palatal 

 bridges and in the large size of their bullae, those of L. yarkandensis 

 being very big indeed, round and dilated ; of L. craspedotis rather 

 longer though not so broad but with even larger external auditory 

 meatus : craspedotis has also rather larger palatal foramina and the 

 anterior " foot " of the zygomatic arch is hardly expanded at all, while 

 in yarkandensis the foot is smaller than in any of the following 

 specimens. 



Both have the nasals truncate posteriorly, those of craspedotis ])eing 

 quite square-ended, also its post-orbital processes are much larger, 

 broader, and almost touch the frontals behind — often they probably 

 do as there are distinctly rough-tipped projections on the latter bones 

 which seem to indicate complete contact : in both species the processes 

 are relatively larger than in any of the following. 



Lepus dayanus. 



Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1874, p. (jtio. 



No. 1293b. Adult skin and skull from Nara-Nai Hills, west of 

 Sehwan on the Indus, Sind (W. T. Blanford coll.). 



Pelage harsher than craspedotis but not so harsh as in the following 

 species : apparently agreeing with the description of the types of 

 dayanus which came from Sukkur on the Indus, about 100 miles N. N. E. 

 of Sehwan. Hairs of upper side of tail with dark bases almost concealed 

 by fulvous tips. 



The specimen is apparently a female as the lower abdomen is clad 

 with Very long hair. 



Upper incisors with cement-grooves completely filled and almost 

 square in section but the posterior border and the sides slightly concave 

 and the corners rounded (fig. 3), less elongate than those of the cotype 



