Western Europe and North Africa. 157 



a broad pale bufF ring, the extreme tips black. Whiskers 

 scarce, mostly white. 



Measurements : — 



Head and body 470 millim. ; tail (c.) 75 ; hind foot 120 ; 

 ear 103, from occiput 115. 



Skull : greatest length 91 ; greatest breadth (squamosals) 

 42*5 ; breadth across front of zygomata 41*5 ; length of nasals 

 in the middle line 31, greatest length 40, greatest breadth 21, 

 across narrowest part 14*5 ; intertemp. constr. 12, breadth 

 across maxillffi below lachrymals 31*7; basal length 72*5; 

 length of upper molar series 15 j depth from nasals lo palate 

 immediately in front of molars 20, above front of palatal 

 foramina 16'5; length of mandible (bone only) from back of 

 condylar process to upperside of back of incisors Qtb'o ; 

 greatest height standing on table perpendicularly to con- 

 dyle 37-5. 



Supraorbital wings well developed, prominently rising- 

 above frontals ; temporal constriction very narrow ; nasals 

 very broad, encroached upon considerably by the frontals, in 

 a broad almost parallel-sided process. 



The skull is very broad, with prominent supraorbital wings, 

 and thus very unlike the Algerian hare L. kabylicus {sujjra) 

 in every particular. 



Lepus funetce, sp. n. 



Lepus mediterrmieus, "Waterhouse, Mamm. ii. p. 43, 1848 (nee Wagn.). 



In texture of fur and in the length of the ears resembling 

 L. cegyptius, but the plain grooves in the incisors without 

 cement-filling show it to be widely separated from that 

 species. Colour pale, rather sandy ; nape of neck soft reddish 

 fawn ; fore and hind legs reddish fawn ; belly white ; tail 

 black above, white below. Colours generally dull and not 

 sharply defined. Ears very long, almost naked behind in 

 their whole length. 



This is the hare taken by Waterhouse for L. mediterraneus, 

 and from the extreme smallness of the last molar that natu- 

 ralist was led to suppose that the tooth was altogether 

 wanting ; but it need hardly be said that this is not the case. 

 This small tooth is only about half the size of that tooth in 

 true L. 7nediterraneuSy and, pressing closely against 5^, it 

 might be overlooked if the skull was not thoroughly clean, 

 as certainly was the case with Waterhouse's specimen, the 

 original being still in the British Museum. 



Type (British Museum no. 47. 10. 21. 3), Tunis. Col- 

 lected and presented by — Fraser. 



Measurements (taken from the dried skin) : — 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. i. 12 



