so LEPOEID^. 



rather longer hairs, except near the tip, where the hairs are short and 

 black. The posterior margins inside pale isabelline, the pale edge 

 becoming broader near the tip. Tail black above, white on the sides 

 and below, whiskers black near their base, white, except on the shorter 

 ones, throughout the greater part of their length ; a pale line from the 

 nose including the eye continued back nearly to the ear. Mr. Blanford 

 gives the following dimenions of a ? in the flesh. 



Length.— Bead and body 15," tail 3-5", hairs at end of tail 1", = 19-5*, 

 ear outside 6", breadth of ear laid flat 3'25"; tarsus and hind foot 

 4'25*, carpus and fore foot 2-5." — {Blanf. East. Pers.) 



Hah. — Sind and Beloochistan. 



Lepus dayanus, B//. P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 663; Murray, Hdblc, Zool, 

 cJT,, Sind., p. 93. Sissa, Soho, Seher, Hind., Sind.— The Sind Haee. 



" Back light brown, much mixed with black ; hairs at the base nearly 

 white, then black, towards the end pale brown, the tips being black ; 

 on the sides of the body the black gradually disappears; belly, as 

 usual, white ; inner surface of the thighs, sides, and lower part of tail 

 the same. Upper part of tail brown, the hairs being dusky and almost 

 black at the base, with brown tips ; sides and lower part of neck as far 

 back as the fore legs and the limbs pale rufous ; soles of feet a little 

 darker ; back of neck behind the ears the same. Bars broad and 

 rather long, apparently slightly exceeding those of L, ruficaudatus, both 

 in length and breath ; they are nearly naked on the greater part of 

 their surface, both inside and out. The anterior portion of the outer 

 surface is covered with short brown hairs mixed with black, the 

 margin itself having a fringe of longer hairs, and the extreme hinder 

 margin is covered with very short whitish hairs. The tips, too, are 

 covered outside with dark brown hair, nearly black inside ; near the 

 edge only with yellowish buff. The hair on the posterior portion of 

 the outer surface, near the base of the ears, is whitish, 



"Distinguished from L. ruficaudatus by being rather smaller, by the 

 hair being longer and very much finer, with, so far as can be judged 

 by the specimen examined, much longer black tips to the hairs on the 

 back. The tail in ruficaudatus is rufous brown above, whereas in the 

 present species it is dusky brown above, and the hairs are blackish at 

 the base. In ruficaudatus the nasal bones are longer and much more 

 convex anteriorly, and the posterior prolongation of the post-orbital 

 process is not in contact with the skull behind, whereas in 

 L. dayanus this prolongation joins the skull so as to leave a foramen 

 behind the post-orbital process, as in L, mediterraneus, which has, on 

 this ground alone, been considered generically distinct from other 

 hares by Dr. Gray. (Ann. Mag. and Nat. Hist. 1867, p. 222). In 

 the skull of L. dayanus, which I have examined, the post-orbital 

 process is not anchylosed with the frontals behind the foramen, but it 

 may very probably be so in older animals. 



" All the teeth are smaller than in L. ruficaudatus, but the upper in- 

 cisors appear very indistinctly grooved, and so far as I can judge never 



