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the usual white rings; interspersed among these are a few long thin 
quills, chiefly white, and reaching a foot or more in length. Skin 
below the quills flesh-white, sprinkled with scattered tawny hairs, 
which occur amongst the bristles as well. Footpads brown; claws 
brownish horn-colour, 
The Poreupine occurs in Hainan (see anfea, p. 233), but in For- 
mosa I have never detected it. The Taiwanfoo Gazetteer (a Chi- 
nese work), however, includes it in its list of the natural productions 
of that island. It describes it as ‘‘ covered with arrows like the 
quills of the Hedgehog, which make a rustling noise when the 
creature walks. ‘These arrows it can dart at people, but not toa 
greater distance than from eight to ten feet.” 
70. Leeus stnensts. (Chinese Hare.) 
Lepus sinensis, Gray, Hardwicke’s Ill. Ind. Zool.; Swinhoe, 
P. Z. S. 1862, p. 359. 
This small, coarse-haired little Hare is the only species in Formosa 
and South China. It is yellowish brown on the upper parts, the 
hairs being broadly tipped with black ; a little white occurs above 
and behind the eye. Ears about the length of the head, with a 
light buff rim, and a blackish-brown apical spot on the hinder sur- 
face; a patch of light rust-colour on the hind neck ; legs and flanks 
a lighter shade of the same; belly and inside of thighs yellowish 
white; tail brown on the upper surface, with a few black hairs inter- 
mingled ; its under surface light buff; under-fur of coloured parts 
light slate-cclour. 
Hainan possesses a Hare of its own, my L. hainanus (see anted, 
p. 233, Pl. XVIII.), and North China the Z. ¢olai, Pall., in com- 
pany with the species under notice. 
Unevunata. 
71. Sus teucomystrax. (White-moustached Boar.) 
Sus leucomystax, Temm. & Schleg. 
In February 1869, Mr. Ludlam, an American gentleman at 
Shanghai, shot in the neighbourhood of that settlement two large 
wild Boars, and very kindly allowed me to take the skin and skull 
of one of them. ‘This animal measured between five and six feet, 
and had a thin tail about ten inches in length; length of skull 18; 
ear 3°75 in height. The upper parts of its skin are clothed with 
coarse black bristles, broadly tipped with light yellowish brown, and 
from 4 to 5 inches in length, longest on occiput and along the back ; 
the under-fur is yellowish brown, and like tow. Cheeks, under 
parts, and legs black ; abdomen, between thighs, anal region, and 
tail dingy white, the latter with a black tuft at tip. The moustache- 
mark is formed by broad whitish tips to the black bristles of face. 
Ear small and pointed, with white-tipped black bristles inside and 
on anterior surface, behind with black bristles, on the upper half 
forming a low fringe, bare at base and on the portion of the head 
where the ear rests. The under-fur on the lower parts is short 
and scanty. Nose sprinkled with a few short stiff hairs. The face is 
