VOL. XVI, PP. 89-90 JUNE 25, 1903 



PROCEEDINGS 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW NEOTOMA FROM MEXICO. 

 BY OUTRAM BANGS. 



The collection of mammals made in Mexico by Mr. S. N. 

 Rhoads and his wife, in the winter and spring of 1899, was pur 

 chased soon afterwards by my brother and myself, and is now in 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge, Mass. 

 When identifying the species, a year or two ago, I was much 

 puzzled by a Neotoma from Texolo, Vera Cruz, that I could not 

 place with any described form, and showed it to Mr. E. W. 

 Nelson, who at once declared it a species he had never taken or 

 even seen, and suggested I send it to Dr. Merriam for compari 

 son with the series in the Biological Survey Collection. This 

 I accordingly did, and Dr. Merriam has most kindly compared 

 it for me with all known forms to which it might be related, 

 and pronounces it a very distinct species, with, apparently, no 

 near ally among the known members of the genus. This new 

 Neotoma^ of which Mr. Rhoads took five examples, all at the 

 same place, may be known as: 







Neotoma distincta sp. nov. 



Type from Texolo, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Old adult $ No. 9819, Bangs 

 Collection. (Collection Museum of Comparative Zoology.) Collected 

 March 8, 1899, by S. N. Rhoads. 



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