356 On a new Hare from Venezuela. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh by col- 

 lector) : — 



Head and body 82 millim, ; tail 105 ; hind foot 23 ; ear 23. 



Skull: greatest length 24*4; basilar length 18"1; greatest 

 breadth 12'7; nasals, length 9'8 ; interorbital breadth 4; 

 palate length 10; diastema 6; palatal foramina 5 x 1"7 ; 

 length of upper molar series 3"8. 



Hah. Tolon, coast district, Province Cajamarca, N. W. Peru. 

 Altitude 100 m. Other specimens from Eten, on the coast, 

 and from Reque, in its near neighbourhood. 



Tyjie. Male. P.M. no. 0. 3. 1. 94. Original number 685. 

 Collected 2nd November, 1899, by Mr. Perry O. Simons. 

 Fourteen specimens examined. 



This species is interesting as forming the connecting-link 

 between the ordinary members of the genus and the aberrant 

 Ph. gerhiUus found in the deserts to the north-west. Occa- 

 sional specimens of the latter are nearly as dark in colour, but 

 even from these Ph. amicus may always be readily distin- 

 guished by its larger size, much larger ears, longer tail, slate- 

 mixed belly, and yellowish lateral line. From Ph. Haggardly 

 on the other hand, it is separable by its smaller size and 

 paler colour. 



Syhilagus * orinoci, sp. n. 



General appearance much as in S. Gabhiy All., but probably 

 really most nearly allied to S. cumanicus, Thos. 



Colour above coarsely grizzled buffy and black, the marbling 

 not so coarse as in 8. cumanicus and the tone not unlike that 

 of S. Gahhi. Undcrfur pale plumbeous basally, black ter- 

 minally. Outer fur with a subterminal band of buffy, much 

 darker than in S. cumanicus and with a black tip. Forehead 

 dark buffy rufous. Cheeks greyish, area round eye whitish 

 and that between eye and car darker, all as in S. cumanicus, 

 but the contrasts not nearly so marked. Nape-patch clear 

 rufous. Ears shorter than in the allied species, their anterior 

 backs greyish, gradually darkening at the terminal edges to 

 black ; their fringes, posterior backs, and whole inner surface 

 silvery grey. Chin and throat white, a faint line along centre 

 of chin brown. Pectoral collar deep butfy. Belly whitish, 

 not sharply defined, mixed laterally with buffy, which latter 

 colour also invades the white on each side in the ante-inguinal 

 region. Outer sides of limbs buffy, inner wliitish, the latter 

 continued on to the tops of the hands and feet. Tail quite 

 short and stumpy, indistinctly brown above, pale buflfy below. 



* See Major, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. vii. p. 514 (1899). 



