LEPUS. 



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have tliG raised ridge along* the front part of their inner edge so 

 conspicuous in old skulls of L. rujicaiulatus^ 



Length. — From nose to rump about 18 inches. The ears are 4i 

 inches long from the orifice to tip, and nearly 2*5* broad ; in fresh 

 specimens they would be 5 inches long at least. The tarsus and 

 hind foot to the end of the claws measure just 4 inches ; this measure- 

 ment of course would be the same in the living animal. The skull 

 extracted is imperfect behind ; the breadth across the hinder and 

 broadest part of the zygomatic arches is ]"55 inch, across the frontal 

 bones, where narrowest, and between the foramina, behind the post- 

 orbital processes, 0"47'''. Length of suture between the nasal bones 

 V\."''—Blanfd. P. Z. S. 1874, p. G63. 



Lepus joongshaiensis, sj?. nov. — The Joongshai Hake. 



Upper and lower lip and chin white. Upper series of whiskers 



entirely black ; 

 median series 

 white with black 

 bases; the lower 

 series and those 

 fringing the up- 

 per lip entirely 

 white. 



A pale fulvous, 

 or fulvous white 

 line from the 

 nostrils on each 

 side, including 

 the eye, and for 

 about half an 

 inch behind it. 

 Hairs on the 

 snout rufescent, 

 mixed with 



blackish on the 

 forehead, black 

 at the base and 

 tip, with a broad 

 fulvescent band 

 in the middle. 

 Ears externally 

 covered with 

 short fulvescent 

 and black hairs, 

 internally with 

 whitish hairs, 

 except for about 

 0'25 inch along 

 the outer au- 



Side viow. 



Skull of Lepus joongshaicnsin. 



