LEPUS 



495 



9 . San Miguel. Major F. A. Chaves 6. 3. 25. 3. 



(c & p). 



2. Coto Donana, Huelva, J. P. Gassiot (c & p). 72. 10. 26. 3-4. 

 Spain. 



<J, 9. Coto Donana, Huelva. A. Chapman (c & p). 2. 3. 3. 1. 



2<5,2 9. Seville. (Dr. A. Ruiz.) Lord Lilford (p). 95.3.3.15-18. 



1. Silos, Burgos. S. & N. Gonzalez (c). 8. 7. 7. 26. 



9. Silos. Burgos. G. S. Miller (c). 8. 8. 4. 123. 



?. Castrillo de la Eeina, G. S. Miller (c). 8. 8. 4. 122. 



Burgos. 



<J. Selva, Majorca, Balearic 0. Thomas (p). 1. 3. 6. 3. 



Islands. (M. Riutort.) 



2 9. Inqa, Majorca. 0. Thomas (p). 1. 3. 6. 5 6. 



(M. Riutort.) 



S. Aleudia, Majorca. 0. Thomas (p). 1. 3. 6. 4. 



(M. Riutort.) 



£, 9. San Cristobal, Minorca. 0. Thomas and R. I. 0. 7. 1. 66-67. 



Pocock (c & p). 



3<J,19. Poulx, Gard, France. O. Thomas (p). 8.8.10.135-138. 



(C. Mottaz.) 



1. Capraja Island, Tuscany. Genoa Museum (e). 7.2.28.4. 



9. Island of Dhia, Crete. Miss D. Bate (c). 5. 12. 2. 35. 



(Type of 0. cnossius Bate.) 



Genus LEPUS Linnaeus. 



1758. Lepus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., I, 10th ed., p. 57 (type by tautonymy, 

 L. timidus Linnaeus). 



1828. ? Lagos Brookes, Catal. Anat. and Zool. Mus. of Joshua Brookes, 



p. 54 (Nomen nudum). 



1829. Chionobates Kaup, Entw.-Geseh. u. Natiirl. Syst. d. Europ. Thier- 



welt, i, p. 170 (variabilis and borealis). 

 1857. Lepus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 410 (part). 

 1867. Eulagos Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., xx, p. 222, 



September, 1867 (mediterraneus aadjudiese). 

 1899. Lepus Major, Trans. Linn. Soc, London, 2nd ser., Zool., vn, p. 514, 



November, 1899. 

 1899. Eulepus Acloque, Faune de France, Mammiferes, p. 52 (europieus 



and variabilis). 

 1904. Lepus Lyon, Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., xlv, p. 389, June 15, 1904. 



Type species. — Lepus timidus Linnaeus. 



Geographical distribution. — Europe, Asia, North America and 

 Africa. 



Characters. — Skull with bony palate short, its length at 

 narrowest region never more than two and one-half times that 

 of first upper molar ; width of choanse greater than least length 

 of palate, and about four times that of first molar ; sutures of 

 interparietal obliterated in adult ; postorbital processes broad 

 and triangular, with distinct anterior and posterior limbs ; first 

 upper premolar with deep median re-entrant angle, on each side 

 of which is a smaller re-entrant angle of varying depth ; anterior 

 portion of anterior lower premolar with a narrow re-entrant 

 angle on its front face and a broad re-entrant angle on external 

 aspect ; second to fifth upper cheek-teeth alike, the re-entrant 



