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LEPUS ARTEMISIA.— Bach. 
Worm- WOOD Hare. 
PLATE LXXXVIII . — Males akd Female. — Natural Size. 
L. Parvus, canescens, nucha et cruribus dilute ferugineis, cautla supra 
canescens, subtus alba, gula et ventre albis, vellere toto ad basin cano ; 
auriculis Jongitudine capitis, tarsus dense vestitis. 
CHARACTERS. 
Small ; of a gray colour, pale rufus on the hack of the neck and legs ; 
tad, above, the colour of the body ; beneath, while ; under parts of the neck, 
and lower surface of the body, white ; all the fur gray at the base ; ears 
as long as the head ; tarsus, well clothed. 
SYNONYMES. 
Lkpus Artemisia. Bach, Worm- wood Hare. Journal Acad. Nat. Sciences 
vol. 8, p. 1, p. 94. ’ 
DESCRIPTION. 
This small Hare is a little less than our common gray Rabbit, the 
ears are longer and more conspicuous. The head is much arched, and 
the upper incisors deeply grooved. 
colour. 
This species is grayish-black and brownish-white above ; the fur is 
soft, pale-gray at the base, shaded into brownish externally, annulatcd 
with brownish-white near the apex, and black at the tips ; under parts, 
and inner sides of the limbs, white ; the hairs pale-graj' at the base ; 
neck, with the hairs on the sides, and under parts grav, tipped -with 
brownish-white, having a faint yellow hue; chin and throat grayish- 
white, the hairs being gray at their base, and white, at their tips. The 
whole back of the neck and limhs exteriorly of a pale rusty-fawm colour; 
hairs on the neck uniform to the base ; soles of the feet, very pale soiled 
yellowish-brown; tail, coloured above as the back, with an admixture 
of grayish-black hairs, beneath, white ; ears, externally on the anterior 
