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Show 1874.J MR. BLANFORD O N N E W MAMMALS FROM SIND. 661 often interrupted, being far less distinct and regular than in the allied species C. asmussi. Abdomen covered with rhomboidal scales, equal in size to the smaller scales of the back, subimbricate, and in regular transverse rows. Anterior part of the fore leg clothed with diamond-shaped scales, becoming more imbricate, smaller, and much broader in proportion to their length on the foot and toes ; on the latter, with the exception of the one or two large shields at the base of each claw, the scales are very much smaller than in C. asmussi. Scales below the hind leg much like those of the abdomen; on the outside they are small, with scattered spinose tubercles ; toes much as in the fore foot, but the fourth toe has a well-marked fringe of pointed scales along the outer edge. Scales beneath the feet keeled, the keels on the fore foot longitudinal, on the hind foot transverse. Colour in spirits isabelline, almost cream-colour, with dusky spots on the back caused by some of the enlarged scales being much darker than the remainder of the surface. 9. On two Species of Herpestes, and a Hare collected by Dr. F. D a y in Sind. By W . T. B L A N F O R D , F.R.S., F.Z.S. [Eeceived November 17, 1874.] (Plate LXXXI.) The fauna of Sind is still far from thoroughly known. The country is a desert, traversed by a fertile belt watered by the river Indus ; and, with the exception of this belt, both the surface and fauna agree with those of Baluchistan and Southern Persia, and differ widely from those of the more fertile parts of India. In the better-watered tracts some peculiar species are found, which have not hitherto been observed elsewhere ; but the number of such forms is very small. The birds of Sind have been described by Mr. H u m e (' Stray Feathers,' vol. i.), and some of the reptiles by the late Dr. Stoliczka, ' Proc. A. S. B., 1872, p. 85. The species noted in the paper last-mentioned, and several of those included in Mr. Hume's list, were collected by Dr. Day. The same naturalist has placed in m y hands for description skins of a Hare and of two Ichneumons obtained by him near Sakhar, all of which he considers new to the fauna of India. After examining the skins in question, I agree in this view, one of the Ichneumons being, in m y opinion, identical with a form already described from Mesopotamia, whilst the other two mammals I look upon as undescribed. H E R P E S T E S F E R R U G I N E U S , sp. nov. (Plate L X X X I .) H. affinis H . griseo, sed colore ferrugineo albo nee griseo mixto facile distinguendus. Pili ex annulis rufis cum albis alter-nantibus compositi, ad basin sordide rufescentes, subtus pal-lidiores, apicem cauda versus longiusculi, omnino f erruginei. Hab. baud procul ab urbe Larkhana, in provincia Sind. General colour ferruginous, minutely speckled and mixed with white. Fur moderately fine. Hairs of the back long, dull, rufes- |