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Show 1 9 0 5 .] MAMMALS FROM PERSIA AND ARMENIA. 5 2 7 one simple deep reentrant angle on each side, the projecting angles bordering them in front and behind nearly equally salient; no trace of the secondary antero-external reentrant angle, which in E. lutescens tends to divide into two the large antero-external projecting angle; posterior lobe diminished or absent. Last lower molar with the anterior external reentrant angle about half the depth of the posterior one ; in fuscocapillus it is quite as deep as the posterior one, while in talpinus it is almost nonexistent. Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :- Head and body 112 mm.; tail 16 ; hind foot 23. Skull-greatest length 32 ; basilar length 29• 2 ; zygomatic breadth 24 ; nasals 8'8 X 3-5 ; palatilar length 19 ; diastema 12*5; length of upper molar series (alveoli) 7'4. 11 ah. as above. Type. Female. B.M. No. 5.10.4.65. Original number 39. Collected 9 May, 1905. " Trapped in corn-land in broad valley, near a stream. Plentiful."- R. B. W. In colour this Ellobius has a close resemblance to the E. lutescens of Lake Van, but its teeth are of much simpler pattern, more approaching those of E. talpinus. 30. A l l a ct ag a w il l iam s i Thos. <5 . 50. Lake Van. A topotype of this beautiful Jerboa, which was described in 1897 from specimens presented to the British Museum by Col. W. H. Williams, R.A. 31. L epus craspedotis Blanf. J . 4. Karun IL, N. of Ahwaz. 250'. 2 . 6. Bunde Kil, Karun R. 250'. This appears to be the lowland coast representative of the ordinary plateau Hare of Persia and Afghanistan, to which the name of L. tibetanus should probably be applied. It is distinguished by its shorter fur, which is silvery whitish at base, with a broad black subterminal ring. In the highland forms the part below the black ring is slaty basally, with a creamy terminal half. The type was described from Pishin, S.W. Baluchistan, about 100 miles from the coast. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVI. Calomyscus bailwardi; natural size : p. 524. |