Mr. J. Scully on MammaJs from Afghanistan, 3S7 



11. Lepus Lehmanni^ SevertzoiF. 



This specimen is not in very good order, and I refer it rather 

 doubtfully to the species described by Severtzoff (see Ann, 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, vol. xviii., " The Mammals of Tur- 

 kestan ") , with which, on the whole, it seems to agree best. So 

 many species of Asiatic hares have been described which differ 

 only in minute particulars as to make the task of identifying 

 a particular specimen difficult and uncertain ; for the number 

 of nominal species ])robably greatly exceeds the constantly 

 distinguishable forms. In the specimen obtained in the Hindu 

 Kush the ears measure, from orifice in front, about 4"3 inches, 

 at back 4*8, greatest breadth about 2' 7. The anterior external 

 part of the ear is coloured like the back ; the posterior part 

 being pale isabelline, black at the tip and partly down the 

 posterior margin. 



The general colour above is mixed pale fawn and black. 

 The chin and belly are white, and the throat and breast 

 pinkish isabelline. The basal part of the fur above, and where 

 coloured on the limbs and breast, is grey; on the belly the 

 fur is white throughout its length. 



The premaxillaries end behind on a level with the nasals, 

 the latter bones having the posterior end sloping inwards 

 and the junction of their outer and hinder margins slightly 

 rounded. 



The mandible from condyle to symphysis measures 

 3*4 inches. 



1. Hindu Kush, Afghan Turkestan. 



12. OazeJla suhgutturosa, Giildenst. 



Head and horns, with skin of head, preserved. Band from 

 between horns to nostrils rufescent fawn. A pale isabelline 

 band outside this from level of inner canthus of eye to upper 

 lip. A dark rufous-fawn stripe from eye-pits to commissure 

 of lips. The ear measures about 5'25 inches in length from 

 orifice to tip in front. The horns from the base curve out- 

 wards, forwards, then backwards, and at the tips they curve 

 inwards and forwards. There are twenty rings on each horn, 

 and these end about 2*5 inches from the tips. The horns 

 measure 14' 7 inches in length along the curve in front, the 

 distance of the tips apart is 6*9, the greatest distance apart 

 7*5, and the girth at the base about 4'5. 



1. (J , Badghis, Herat. 



