52 LEPORID^E. 



terior edge for the length of its basal 

 half where it is mixed \vithbl:\ck; the 

 inner margin of the conch is clothed 

 with long white hairs, which project 

 from its outer edge, and become 

 shorter, closer, and buffish round the 

 margin of the tip, where it is backed by black hairs on the outer 

 margin. Fur behind the ears at the base, and on the sides of 

 the nape, greyish white. A distinct broad, unmixed rufescent 

 earthy streak from between the ears, behind, to between the 

 shoulders. Ruff below the neck and the sides of the body, 

 above the white of the belly, pale earthy fulvescent, largely mixed 

 with long black spiny hairs, some with black bases and tips 

 and a broad fulvescent mesial band. The upper breast is not white 

 as shown in the plate, of L. craspedotis {Bhinf. East. Per s.). The 

 under- fur of the upper parts is pale French grey, or light ashy. On 

 the back the fur is soft and long, with broad white bases followed 

 by a dark band, and a subapical fulvous one; the apices narrowly 

 black. Tail black above, white below, with an intervening line of 

 longish, earthy fulvescent hairs. 



Inner surface of the thighs, the belly, and under side of the tail, 

 white, externally the limbs are rufous ; the tarsi and soles of the feet 

 are dark earthy rufescent brown. 



Lcn^^//.— Head and body 18 inches; tail 3* = 21. Ears from base 

 of skull 5 inches, greatest breadth 2-6". Tarsus to tip of nail 4-12". 



The length of the skull is 3-25 inches; the width across zygomatic 

 arches where broadest behind, 1-5"; width across frontal bone, where 

 narrowest, behind the post-orbital process, 0-5". Suture of nasal bones 

 1-12*, suture of frontal plate 1-37". Width of brain case l-OG". The 

 hind superciliary or post-orbital process is serrated ; its hind process is 

 free and not anchylosed to the frontal bone behind, and the greatest 

 width across is 0-93". The nodosity on the anterior angle of the 

 zygoma, above the molars, is large, nearly flat below ; its hind margin 

 grooved with a deep hollow to receive a tendon. The greatest width 

 acrosstheseis r44inches. Upper incisors distinctly grooved. Themolars 

 are larger than those of craspedotis and dayanuSi the third and largest 

 being 0-18'' across ; the four middle ones with a prominent ridge in the 

 centre, their outer edges grooved ; the first molar is accumbent on the 

 second, with three grooves and three ridges anteriorly. The palatal 

 foramen is 0-25 inches wide anteriorly, while in daijanus it is just 0-12*'. 

 In daijamis there is a small projection or point behind as well as in 

 front of the bone separating the palatal foramina, but in this species 

 or form it is wanting behind. 



I provisionally name it L.joMi^6'/tai'e7is?s. I am indebted to Mr. Gopal 

 Jairam, the Station Master, at Joongshai, and to Mr. F. Gleadow of 

 the Forest Department, for specimens of this form. 



