316 ox MAMMALS FROM ABYSSIXIA. [JToV. 4, 



terminal halves, with a bufFy or dark isabelhne subterminal 

 band. Under surface mostly dull sandy or buffy, with but little 

 white ; not sharply defined from the upper surface. Crown of 

 head grizzled mummy-brown, like back, a large area rovind each 

 eye whitish bufiy. Ears of only medium length, their outer 

 surface dark grizzled brown, with an inconspicuous patch of dull 

 black behind their tips ; fringe of long hairs on lower part of 

 anterior edge, of shorter hairs along the posterior edge, dull 

 sandy ; inner surface brown proximally, sandy terminally. ISTape- 

 patch rather paler than " cinnamon-i-ufous." Fore limbs like 

 nape-patch at elbows, becoming sandy bufiy on the hands ; feet 

 also dull sandy bufiy. Tail unfortunately wanting in the only 

 specimen. 



Skull stoutly built, with a long heavy muzzle ; supraorbital 

 wings unusually small and weak ; anterior shoulders of zygomata 

 large and prominent, the breadth across them exceeding the 

 posterior zygomatic breadth ; palatal bridge of medium breadth ; 

 bullae decidedly small. 



Upper incisors each with a deep but simple enamel inden- 

 tation, corresponding about to no. xiii. of the series figured by 

 Dr. Major ^ ; the groove entirely filled up with cement. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in skin : — 



Head and body 510 mm. ; hind foot 102 ; ear-opening (wet) 90. 



Skull — greatest length 90'5 ; basilar length 68"8 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 40"3 ; nasals, length diagonallj^ 41, breadth 20; inter- 

 orbital breadth 21, breadth across supraorbital wings 21*7 ; 

 intertemporal breadth 10'7 ; palatal foramina 22 x 8'5 ; palatal 

 bridge 7"4 ; antero-posterior diameter of bullae 10" 2. 



Type. The specimen recorded above. B. M. No. 2.9.9.54. 



This very interesting Hare difiers widely from all the pale 

 long- eared N. African Desert Hares, and is apparently the 

 representative in Abyssinia of the L. whytei group of Nyasa and 

 Central Africa, with which it somewhat agrees in cranial characters 

 and in the proportions of its ears. 



I have named it in honour of my friend, Mr. Charles E. Fagan, 

 Assistant Secretary of the Museum, to whom Mr. Degen, like all 

 other collectors making expeditions for the benefit of the National 

 Museum, has been much indebted for assistance. 



25. Procavia brucei somalica Thos. 

 Adult S ^ yo^^ng. Bijo. 16 January. 



26. Oryctbropus afeu .iiithiopicus Sund. 

 Andota. May. 



1 Trans. Linn. Soc, 2nd ser. Zool. vii. p. 468 (1899). 



