206 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 
that of an old female, with the teeth all present, yet greatly worn down. The 
condylar region has been broken away, but otherwise the specimen is in excellent 
condition. Apparently no recent comparisons have been made between this 
species and those close to it geographically, nor am I able to throw further light 
on its relationships, though allowing for the worn condition of the teeth in the 
specimen studied, it seems rather close to the Indian Sus cristatus. The vertex 
of the skull, however, is strikingly broader. The following measurements in 
millimeters are taken from this skull:— greatest width at vertex, 63; greatest 
postorbital width, 120; greatest zygomatic width, ‘142; length from median 
border of vertex to tip of nasals, 306; length of nasals, 174; greatest combined 
width of nasals, 35; palatal length, 222; upper molar row, 130; lower molar 
row, 115; length of mandible, 282; last upper molar, 37 x 22; last lower molar, 
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LEPORIDAE. 
LEPUS SWINHOEI FILCHNERI (Matschie). 
A series of nine winter and two summer skins with skulls, appears to repre- 
sent this inland race of the common Chinese hare. All were taken in Hupeh 
in the region about Ichang, but none was obtained in the more western province 
of Szechwan. Thése specimens agree well enough in color with those described 
by Swinhoe and Matschie, though without topotypes of the Chefoo hare of Swin- 
hoe, no direct comparison can be made. With the latter, indeed, Thomas has 
suggested that filchneri of Matschie is identical, but Dr. J. A. Allen (1909, p. 426) 
considers that it is probably a valid subspecies and points out that inland animals 
from southern Shensi have shorter rostra than those from the coast as indicated 
by Swinhoe’s measurements (1870, p. 449). On this account and on the proba- 
bility that the inland animals would be slightly differentiated from those on the 
coast 1,200 miles away, Dr. Allen deems it best to regard Matschie’s Lepus 
filchneri from southern Shensi as a distinct race, although the original descrip- 
tion contains nothing that is particularly diagnostic. Our specimens agree 
with those from Shensi in the shortness of the measurement from the postorbital 
notch to the tip of the nasals as compared with that given by Swinhoe for his 
Chefoo hare. 
Thomas has further indicated that Matschie’s Lepus stegmanni is doubtless 
synonymous with L. swinhoei or the present subspecies, since the speckling of 
the black upper tail surface with lighter hairs is not a constant character but 
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