1874.] MR. BLANFORD ON NEW MAMMALS FROM SIND. 663 



Length from nose to end of tail in two specimens about 20 inches, 

 tail to end of hairs 10 ; tarsus and hind foot to end of claws l'7o. 

 The tarsus is not naked below. 



In the skull the bony orbit is complete behind, as already men- 

 tioned by Gray. 



I have compared both skins and skull of this Mungoose with the 

 types in the British Museum, and they agree admirably. The types 

 in question were brought by Mr. Loftus from Mahamrah, in Khii- 

 zistan, the Persian province bordering on the estuary of the united 

 Tigris and Euphrates rivers. 



Two specimens of H. persicus were killed by Dr. Day on the right 

 bank of the Indus, about a mile above Sakhar, in a grove of pnlm- 

 trees. 



Lepus dayanus, sp. nov. 



L. affinis L. ruficaudato, sed pelle mollissima facile distinguendus. 

 Cauda insuper fusca, haud nigra. Dorsum ex fusco griseum 

 cum nigro mixtum, pilis ad basin albidis, inde nigris, apices 

 versus isabellinis, apicibus ipsis nigris. Aures longiusculce, latce, 

 postice subnudce, antice et prtesertim ad marginem anteriorem 

 magis pilosce, ad apices fusco-nigrce, postice isabellino limbatce, 

 limbo apicem versus latiore. Mystaces nigra et albce. 

 Hab. in provincia Indica Sind dicta, haud procul ab urbe Sakhar, 

 ad ripas Indi fluminis. 



Colour on the back light brown, much mixed with black, hairs at 

 the base nearly white, theu black, towards the ends pale brown, the 

 tips being black, on the sides of the body the black gradually dis- 

 appears ; belly, as usual, white ; inner surface of the thighs, sides, and 

 lower part of tail the same ; upper part of tail brown, the hairs 

 being dusky and almost black at the base, with brown tips ; sides 

 and lower part of neck as far back as the fore legs and the limbs 

 pale rufous ; soles of feet a little darker ; back of neck behind the 

 ears the same. The ears are broad and rather long, apparently 

 slightly exceeding those of L. ruficaudatus, both in length and 

 breadth ; they are nearly naked on the greater part of their surface, 

 both inside and out. The anterior portion of the outer surface is 

 covered with short brown hairs mixed with black, the margin itself 

 having a fringe of longer hairs ; and the extreme hinder margin is 

 covered with very short whitish hairs. The tips, too, are covered 

 outside with dark brown hair, nearly black inside, near the edge only 

 with yellowish buff. The hair on the posterior portion of the outer 

 surface near the base of the ears is whitish. 



This Hare is distinguished from L. ruficaudatus by being rather 

 gmaller, by the hair being longer and very much finer, with, so far 

 as can be judged by the specimen examined, much longer black 

 tips to the hairs on the back. The tail in L. ruficaudatus is rufous 

 brown above, the hairs being the same colour at their base, whereas 

 in the present species it is dusky brown above, and the hairs are 

 blackish at the base. The skulls of the two species exhibit the fol- 

 lowing differences : — In L. ruficaudatus the nasal bones are longer 



