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or1)ifal processes not coalescing with the f rentals behind. 

 Anterior palatine foramina decidedly narrower than in 

 L. syhaticns. Bullae small. Enamel of incisors simply 

 following the curve of the tooth-face, not specially infolded. 



Dimensions of the type (an adult female, measured in 

 flesh by collector) : — 



Head and body 340 niillim. ; tail 21 ; hind foot 68 ; ear 55. 



Skull : greatest length 70'5, basilar length 55 ; greatest 

 breadth .34 ; nasals, greatest length 26, greatest breadth 14'3 ; 

 interorbital breadth, without ledges 14, with ledges 16"5; 

 intertemporal breadth 12'2 ; palate lengtli from henselion 28*3 ; 

 diastema 19-2; palatine foramina 17'5x5"2. Molar series 

 (sockets) 13'3. 



Huh. W. slope of Cayambe Mountain, Eastern Cordillera 

 of Ecuador, altitude 40*00 metres. Coll. W. F. H. Rosen- 

 berg, 2nd July, 1897. 



This is no doubt the hare referred by Tschudi and Tomes 

 to Z, hrasi'h'ensis, but is clearly not that species, than which 

 it is very much larger. Probably it is most nearly allied to 

 L. Gahbi and L. si/lvaticus, but may be distinguished by its 

 more dingy coloration. 



Lcpus T)ejih'2)pii\ Cornalia *, is evidently, by its size and 

 locality, closely allied to, if not identical with, L. brasiliensis. 



Lepus cumanicuSj sp. n. 



Size about as in L. Gahhi. General coloration bright and 

 vivid, very different to that of L. andinus. Back very 

 coarsely marbled, the colours strongly contrasted, the light 

 rings on the hairs nearly white, and the long dark tips 

 shining black. Crown grizzled brownish. Sides of face 

 whitish, a sharply marked white ring passing around the 

 eyes and continued as a white line upwards towards the base 

 of the ears. Between the eye and ear, behind and below the 

 white ring, there is a distinct black patch, contrasting 

 markedly with the white eye-ring and white chin. Chin, 

 belly, inner sides of hind limbs, and top of feet pure white, 

 the hairs white to their roots. Throat grizzled pale slaty and 

 buff. Ears of medium lengtli, grejish basally, darkening to 

 black terminally. Nape-patch bright rufous. Rump not 

 more rufous than back, but the back of the hind limbs and 

 the soles are slightly suffused with rufous. Tail very short, 

 above slaty grey with a few buff-tipped hairs intermixed, 

 white below. 



Skull larger and heavier than in L. andinus -, bulla3 equally 

 small ; postorbital processes short, just touching but not 



* In Osculati's ' Esplorazione ' ; see Kev. et Mag. de Zool. (2) iii. 

 p. 615 (1851). 



