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in most lights), the mottling almost absent on the sides. 

 Individual hairs pale for their basal halves, blackish brown 

 above with a bright pale buff subterminal ring ; underfur 

 pale slate-colour at its base, merging into a pinkish buff 

 (near ecru-drab of E-idgway) and ending in a black tip. 

 Below, the belly and chest are white; the hairs white to 

 their bases. Face and crown coloured like the back, but the 

 mottling finer ; an obsolescent white frontal patch. Upper 

 lip and base of whiskers buffy brown. Chin white ; the 

 hairs with slaty bases. Ears shorter than in angolensis ; 

 anterior half of their outer surface, for its basal half, coloured 

 like the head, darker at the tip, at the back of which is a 

 small black patch ; fringe dull buffy, changing to black 

 about an inch from the tip ; posterior edge narrowly edged 

 with white. Nuchal patch very large, extending along the 

 median line of the back as far as the points of the ears when 

 these are laid back. Throat clothed with long hair (27- 

 30 mm.) forming a cinnamon-coloured ruff (the individual 

 hairs with short black tips). Fore legs pale brown on the 

 outer, white on the inner side. Inner side of hind legs white, 

 a distinct black patch down the centre of the back of the 

 thigh. Tail black above, white below. 



tSkull, as compared with that of L. angolenais^ longer and 

 narrower, with much more lightly built postorbital wings, of 

 which the anterior and posterior processes are unusually 

 slender. Projecting " shoulders '^ of anterior zygoma-root 

 much less developed than in the allied species. Bullai 

 markedly smaller, their antero-posterior diameter 10 mm. as 

 compared with 12 mm. in the fresh specimen of L. angolensis. 

 Incisors with the same additional enamel line as described 

 by Thomas in L. angolensis : this line is no doubt present 

 more often than has been recorded. 



Dimensions of the type (the external cues taken by 

 collector) : — 



Head and body 460 mm. ; tail 75 ; hind foot 106 ; ear 111. 



Skull : greatest length 87 ; basilar length 67 ; nasals, 

 diagonal length 38 ; interorbital breadth 17 ; greatest 

 breadth 40 ; diastema 25 ; length of upper molar tooth- 

 row 15. 



Bab. Caiala, Bihe. Alt. 6000 feet. 



Ti/pe. c? . B.M. no. 5. 5. 9. 80. Original number 37. 

 Collected October 8th, 1904. 



This species differs from L. angolensis, Thos., which is also 

 found in Bihe, by its more rufous coloration, shorter ears, 

 large nuchal patch, and by the skull-characters mentioned 

 above. The only other hare described from Angola i?i 



