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Diiiiensions of the type (measurerl in the flesh) : — Head and 

 body 467 mm.; tail 94;' hind foot 109 ; ear 106. 



Hah. Umvolosi Station, Zululand. 



r^/jfje. Male. B.M. no. 4.12.3.91. Original number 799. Col- 

 lected 30 June, 1904. 



This Eastern form of the common L. saxatilis is so much 

 smaller, and has such a conspicuously smaller skull, than its Cape 

 ally, that we have no alternative but to give it a special subspecific 

 name. Further material from different localities will be needed 

 before any exact idea of its distribution can be obtained. 



While comparing the specimen with the Museum series of skins, 

 we have also been much struck by the characters of the three 

 specimens of this grouj) collected by Mr. Grant at Klipfontein, 

 noticed by us in our paper on the l!^amaqualand collection. 



This Western race is markedly larger than the Southern or 

 Cape form, represented in the collection by two specimens from ' 

 Deelfontein collected by Messrs. Grant and Seimund during the 

 late war. In agreement with Waterhouse* and other authors, 

 we synonymise the remainder of the names hitherto applied 

 to members of this group with the true Lejnts saxatilis Cuv., of 

 which, in the absence of modern material from the neighbourhood 

 of Cape Town, we provisionally take a Deelfontein example as 

 representative. We propose to call the Namaqualand form 



LePUS SAXATILIS MEGALOTIS, Subsp. n. 



Size very large. General colour as in zuluensis; flanks and 

 throat rather lighter ; muzzle, cheeks, and round the eyes silvery 

 grey ; basal two-thirds of internal margin of ears lined with long- 

 pale bufly hairs, distal third lined with black, external margin 

 bordered with white. NajDe-jDatch between "clay-colour" and 

 " isabella-colour " (Ridgway), rather darker than in zuluensis; 

 hair on under surface of fore and hind limbs grey basally with 

 white tips, producing a silvery appearance ; tail much longer than 

 in the Zulu or Deelfontein forms. 



Skull approximatelj^ of the same size as that of the specimen 

 fi"om Deelfontein taken as typical of true saxatilis, in spite of the 

 fact that its external measurements are much greater. 



Dimensions of Specimen 



tlie tj^pe from from Deelfontein, 



Klipfontein. B.M. no. 3.3.6.11. 

 mm. mm. 



Head and body 542 528 



Tail 132 115 



Hind foot 137 128 



Ear 147 130 



Hah. Klipfontein, Namaqualand. 



Type. B.M. no. 4.2.3.103. Original number 520. Collected 

 23 June, 1903. 



* Nat. Hist. Mamm. vol. ii. p. 93 (1848). 



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