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orbital processes not coalescing with the frontals behind. 
Anterior palatine foramina decidedly narrower than in 
L. sylvaticus. Bulle 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 millim.; 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 length from henselion 28:3 ; 
diastema 19°2; palatine foramina 17°5x 5:2. Molar series 
(sockets) 13:3. 
Hab. W. slope of Cayambé Mountain, Eastern Cordillera 
of Ecuador, altitude 4000 metres. Coll. W. F. H. Rosen- 
berg, 2nd July, 1897. 
This is no doubt the hare referred by Tschudi and Tomes 
to L, brasiliensis, but is ‘clearly not that species, than which 
it is very much larger. Probably it is most nearly allied to 
L. Gabbi and L. sylvaticus, but may be distinguished by its 
more dingy coloration. 
Lepus Defilippit, Cornalia *, is evidently, by its size and 
locality, closely allied to, if not identical with, Z. brasiliensis. 
Lepus cumanicus, sp. n. 
Size about as in LZ. Gabb’. General coloration bright and 
vivid, very different to that of ZL. 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 length, greyish 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 ; bulle equally 
small; postorbital processes short, just touching but not 
* In Osculati’s ‘ Esplorazione’; see Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2) iii. 
p- 615 (1851), 
