Pronolagus randensis Jameson, 1907 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 20:404.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Observatory Kopje ...Johannesburg...Witwatersrand Range, Transvaal... 5,900 ft. " [1,798 m] [South Africa].

DISTRIBUTION: Two disjunct areas: NE South Africa; E Botswana to extreme W Mozambique, Zimbabwe; and W Namibia, perhaps SW Angola.

STATUS: Secure.

SYNONYMS: capricornis Roberts, 1926; caucinus Thomas, 1929; ekmani Lundholm, 1955; kaokoensis Roberts, 1946; kobosensis Roberts, 1938; makapani Roberts, 1924; powelli Roberts, 1924; waterbergensis Hoesch and Von Lehmann, 1956; whitei Roberts, 1938.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in crassicaudatus by Lundholm (1955a); but see Petter (1972b:6). The systematic position of the two widely disjunct populations needs clarification (Duthie and Robinson, 1990).