820 
THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
Avashed with black on the back and on the front of the head; nape very pale isabelline. 
Borders of the ears pale whitish butf, rather more fawn towards the tips; well-marked 
black tip behind. The tail is long and pure black and white. The legs only slightly 
more pure isabelline than the sides of the body; feet very pale coloured. 
Measurements taken from specimens in skin :—Head and body (c.) 420 mm.; tail 
(c.) 73, with hair 95 ; hind foot (c.) 100; ear from crown (c.) 130, from notch (c.) 118. 
Measurements of skulls. 
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$ (type). 
mm. 
mm. 
mm. 
Greatest length. 
85-5 
86 
84 
„ breadth . 
38-5 
40 
39 
Basal length. 
69-5 
69-5 
695 
Front of incisors to hack of palate .. 
345 
34 
34-5 
Length of molar series (alveolar). 
14-5 
15 
14-5 
Anterior point of zygoma to front of incisors . 
34-5 
33-5 
33-5 
Length of snout, middle line of nasals from central 
imaginary point .. 
32-5 
32 
32-5 
Breadth of face outside posterior processes of pre- 
maxillse.. 
20-5 
20-5 
20-5 
Breadth of nasals anteriorly. 
12 
11-5 
12 
For the object of this work, Mr. Bothschild has lent several specimens of this hare 
at various ages, obtained in the neighbourhood of Cairo, probably in the Province of 
Gizeh. Two specimens obtained by Capt. Flower, also in the Province of Gizeh, were 
made into mats by an officious taxidermist; other specimens were rolled uj) and 
completely destroyed by damp and beetles. 
The grooves of the upper incisors are shallower than those of L. (^gyptius, simple, 
V-shaped, straight, and filled Avith cement. 
Lepus innesi, de Winton. 
Lepus innesi, de Winton, Nov. Zool. vol. ix. 1902, p. 445. 
^ ? . Gattahj Fayum. Dr. Walter Innes, Bey. 
Size smaller than L. (legyftius ; ears short, measuring only 1:| times the length of 
the head. Legs rather short; feet narrow, hair of the cushions short. Fur short, with 
but few conspicuous longer hairs about the shoulders and flanks. General colour paler 
and more sand-coloured than L. cegyptius, but with the nape of the neck of a very 
similar tint of rufous faAvn. The ears margined throughout their length Avith whitish 
short hair on the outer border, and on the inner border Avith longer buff hairs; blackish 
