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both palms and soles are 5-tuberculate. The tail is bicolor. The ears small 

 and sparsely covered with hairs similar in colour to those on the rest of the 

 body. Mamma? eight in number, four pectoral and four inguinal. 



Skull. — The dental characters are practically identical with those of Ph. 

 blythi. The skull itself is very similar in general outline, but slightly smaller ; 

 this is especially noticeable in the bullae, which do not stand out so prominently 

 from the rest of the cranium. 



Dimensions of type (from spirit). — Head and body 98 mm.; tail 30 ; bind foot 

 17 ; ear 10'5. 



Skull. — Greatest length 28 mm.; basilar length 24'5 ; zygomatic breadth 

 16*5 ; interorbital breadth 4 ; length of nasals 7 ; diastema 8*2 ; palatal length 

 16,; length of molar series (text-fig. 53), (alveoli) 7. 



Habitat. — Lhasa, Tibet. 



Type.—B. M. 5, 4, 6, 5. 9 ad. Collected by Capt H. J. Walton, I.M.S. 



This interesting species cannot well be confused with any other, as the skull- 

 characters clearly prove it to belong to the subgenus Phaiomys, and its colour 

 is quite unlike any of the other species of that group. 



Lbpus oiostolus Hodgs. 



Lepus oiostolus Hodgson, J. A. S. B., IX., p. 1186 (1840) ; Blanford, Faun. Br- 

 Ind., Mamm., p. 452 (1891). 



a. Khamba Jong, Oct. 1903. 



Apparently the common Hare of Tibet, two more skins having been brought 

 home by Col. Waddell. Capt. Walton states that this hare, which, as a rule, 

 avoids cultivated land and frequents bare and rocky hillsides, was very 

 common at Khamba Jong and also at Tuna at the head of the Chumbi "Valley. 

 Jt was, however, much scarcer, although still occurring between Gyangtse and 

 Lhasa. 



OCHOTONA CURZONI^ HodgS. 



Lagomys curzonice Hodgs. (nee Stoliczka) J. A. S. B., XXVI., p. 207 (1858) ; 

 Blanford, Faun. Br. Ind., Mamm., p. 457 (1891); Bonhote, P.Z.S. 1904, 

 Vol. II., p. 214. 



a. 9 . Yamdok Lake, 14,800', 29th Sept. 1904. 



b. c. No particulars. 



d. ad. in spirit. Tuna. 



The specimen from the Yamdok Lake had evidently just assumed its new 

 winter pelage, the other two skins being in old and worn fur. Tuna, where 

 the spirit-specimen was procured, is only a few miles north of the Chumbi 

 Valley, tbe type locality of the species. 



Capt. Walton writes of this species : — " They are exceedingly common at 

 Khamba Jong, Tuna, and in all the open bare country from Tuna to Gyangtse 

 as well as between Gyangtse and Lhasa. They, however, become less common 

 as one approaches Lhasa.- probably because the country is more cultivated. 

 They avoid cultivated fields for the most part, and were always commonest in 

 bare sandy country. They do not hibernate at all, and on any sunny day in 



