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Show 1874.] MR. BLANFORD ON N E W MAMMALS FROM SIND. 663 Length from nose to end of tail in two specimens about 20 inches, tail to end of hairs 10; tarsus and hind foot to end of claws 1*75. The tarsus is not naked below. In the skull the bony orbit is complete behind, as already mentioned by Gray. I have compared both skins and skull of this Mungoose with the types in the British Museum, and they agree admirably. The types in question were brought by Mr. Loftus from Mahamrah, in Khu-zistan, the Persian province bordering on the estuary of the united Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Two specimens of H. persicus were killed by Dr. Day on the right bank of the Indus, about a mile above Sakhar, in a grove of palm-trees. LEPUS DAYANUS, sp. nov. L. affinis L. ruficaudato, sedpelle mollissima facile distinguendus. Cauda insuper fusca, haud nigra. Dorsum ex fusco griseum cum nigro mixtum, pilis ad basin albidis, inde nigris, apices versus isabellinis, apicibus ipsis nigris. Aures longiuscula, lata, postice subnuda, antice et prasertim ad marginem anteriorem magis pilosa, ad apices fusco-nigra, postice isabellino limbata, limbo apicem versus latiore. Mystaces nigra et alba. Hab. in provincia, Indica, Sind dicta, haud procul ab urbe Sakhar, ad ripas Indi fluminis. Colour on the back light brown, much mixed with black, hairs at the base nearly white, then black, towards the ends 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 tbe same. The ears are broad and rather long, apparently slightly exceeding those of L. ruficaudatus, both in length and breadth ; 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, tbe 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. This Hare is 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 tbe back. The tail in L. ruficaudatus is rufous brown above, the hairs being the same colour at their base, whereas in tbe present species it is dusky brown above, and the hairs are blackish at the base. The skulls of the two species exhibit the following differences :-In L. ruficaudatus the nasal bones are longer |