1898.] FEOM TIBET AND KASHMIR. 361 



upper surface of its tail a distinct narrow blackish stripe ' tinged 

 with grey, which is wanting in L. hypsihius. The skull, too, 

 judging from a comparison of Biichner's figures (pi. xsv. figs. 6-8) 

 with my own (pi. iv. a, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b), is very similar except that 

 the nasals in the North Tibetan skull are rather longer. Some 

 apparent divergencies in the printed measurements are evidently 

 due to different methods of taking the dimensions. Both skulls 

 agree in one very striking character, the elevation of the post- 

 orbital processes on each side above the plane of the frontals, and 

 the resulting concavity of the frontal area. 



I think it is by no means improbable that the large Hare of 

 Xorth Tibet and Kansu, identified by Biichner with L. oiostolus, is 

 a A ariety of L. hypsihius. If not, it must, I think, be an undescribed 

 species. 



On Macacus rhesus villosus. 



In the Proceedings of the U. S. Xational Museum, vol. xvii. 

 pp. 1-16 (1894), is a paper by Mr. Frederick AY. True entitled 

 " Notes on Mammals of Bultistan and the Vale of Kashmir, 

 presented to the National Museum by Dr. W. L. Abbott." I am 

 indebted to the author for a copy. Three species of Arvicola are 

 described as new% and a grey foi-m of Mus arianus as a new sub- 

 species. A Monkey is called Macacus rhesus villosus, and is 

 regarded as a new subspecies of 21. rhesus. 



This last is by far the most interesting addition to the Kashmir 

 fauna. Five specimens, all males, and three of them adults, were 

 obtained in Lolab, which lies N.W. of the western extremity of 

 the Walar Lake, and about 20 miles north of Baramula. 



Mr. True says that at first he supposed the specimens to repre- 

 sent M. assamensis, but after a careful comparison with Anderson's 

 description of the type of that species, he was convinced that they 

 were not the same. He omits to point out the diiferences. 



Now there are three characters by which M. assamensis 

 (M.pelops Hodgs.) may be distinguished from M. rhesus. In the 

 former the face is dusky, the hair is wavy or woollv, and the 

 buttocks are clad with hair around the callosities. Everr one of 

 these three characters is possessed by M. rhesus villosus. More- 

 over there is not, so far as I know, any other characteristic 

 difference in skins. I am unable to come to any other con- 

 clusion than that the M. rhesus villosus is identical with M. assam- 

 ensis. The Kashmir Monkey is, J think, certainly M. pelops, and 

 Anderson, who examined the types of both, united 21. pelops and 

 2/1. assamensis. 



If the Macacus of Lolab is M. assamensis, it is probable that 



^ Biichner's identification of the Hare with L. oiostolus appears to be chiefly 

 due to the presence of tliis grey stripe on the upper surface of the tail, as he 

 quotes Hodgson's description, '"tail white with a grey-blue strip towards the 

 back." It is probable that Hodgson's expression has been understood to implv 

 the presence of a stripe along the whole dorsal surface : I am satisfitd, how ever, 

 that by " towards the back " he meant the extreme base of the tail ; see the 

 previous description from his MS. of L. fallipes — words italicized. 



