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than black. Eyes surrounded by an obscurely darker ring. Ears 

 of medium size, naked, grey. Hands and feet with the edges of the 

 metapodials and whole of the digits white, the centre of the meta- 

 podials brown; pads large; fifth hind toe long, reaching to the 

 middle of the second phalanx of the fourth. Tail long, finely scaled 

 (about 15 rings to the centimetre), well haired, slightly tufted at 

 tip, the terminal hairs about 5 mm. in length ; dark brown above, 

 rather lighter below. Mammse apparently 1—2 = 6. 



Skull light and thinly built in propoi'tion to its size. Muzzle 

 and interorbital region narrow ; beading on latter well defined in 

 frontal region but dying off" on parietals. Brain-case smooth, round- 

 ed, convex above. Front of zygomatic plate as in fulvescens, nearly 

 vertical, not projected forwards. Palatal foramina well open, ex- 

 tending backwards to the level of the front root of m'. Bullae small. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh : — 



Head and body 145mm.; tail 218; hindfoot 28; ear 25. 



Skull, greatest length 36-2 ; condylo-incisive length 32-7 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 17 ; nasals 13 ; interorbital breadth 4-9 ; breadth of 

 brain-case 15-3; palatilar length 15-8 ; palatal foramina 7-1 ; upper 



molar series 6-4. ^ aaa- 



Hah — Mishmi Hills. Type from Anzong Valley. Alt. 6,000 . 



Type.— Adult female. B. M. No. 14. 6. 24. 2. Collected 3rd 

 May 1913, by Capt. F. M. Bailey, and presented by him to the 

 National Museum through the Bombay Natural History Society. 



This distinct rat is readily separable from the only species it 

 resembles, E. fulvescens, by its larger size, larger tooth-row, and 

 less ridged skull. Whether it has any relationship to Mus cmnamo- 

 me?(s, Blyth (1859), is immaterial, as that name is antedated by 

 Pictet (1844). 



Lepus oiostolus, Hodgs. 



Capt Bailey obtained two skins referable to L. oiostolus, one of 

 them at Ohamdokyang, about 150 miles East of Gyangtze, ma 

 country of about the same altitude (15,000') and character as the 

 latter. This specimen nearly agrees with typical oiostolus m its 



general bufiy colour. i -n ^ u 



The other specimen came from much further to the East, where 

 the country is more forested and at a lower altitude than the typi- 

 cal region of oiostolus. The hare is consequently somewhat differ- 

 ent and may be sub-specifically distinguished as follows :— 



Lepus oiostolus illuteus, subsp. n 



General characters as in true oiostolus, but throughout, on head, 



ears and back, the buffy is almost or quite absent, the hairs being 



mixed grey and cream colour, or cream-bufi", and the general tone 



greyish or olive-grey. Undersurface pale slaty grey, that of oiosto- 



