52 Osgood Unrecognized and Misapplied Names. 



" Lepus cunicularius N.* (Conexo) Sacualpan July 26." It is numbered 

 1503 and its entry in the museum register is as follows : 



" 1503 Lepus cunicularius Lichtenstein * Waterhouse, Mammalia II, p. 

 132. Sacualpan July 26 Deppe, Conexo." 



The second specimen is labeled " Lepus cunicularius (Canejo) ganz 

 weisses sehr gutes fleisch. Xalapa. Febr.," all being in the handwriting 

 of Deppe except the word cunicularius which is in that of Lichtenstein. 

 Both specimens appear to represent the species later called versecrucis by 

 Thomas. A careful comparison of them with the description, measure 

 ments, and colored figure of versecrucis finds essential agreement in all 

 respects. The localities Sacualpan and Jalapa in Vera Cruz are but a short 

 distance from Las Vigas, the type locality of versecrucis. 



Scapanus latimanus (Bachman). 



Scalops latimanus Bachman, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, pp. 34-35, 1842. 



Scalops californicus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., I, p. 54, 1855 San Fran 

 cisco, California. 



Scapanus townsendi Peters, Monatsber. K. Akad. Wissensch., Berlin, p. 656, 

 1863. 



Scapanus dilatus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVII, p. 242, 1894. 



Scapanus californicus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, p. 52, 1896. 



The name Scalops latimanus has been referred to the synonymy of Scapa 

 nus townsendi, first by Peters and later by True. But its type, in the Berlin 

 Museum, is without doubt an example of the species currently known as 

 Scapanus californicus. As stated by Peters (I.e.), it was transmitted by 

 Deppe from Monterey, California. It was collected in October, 1834, at 

 Santa Clara, not a Mexican locality, as suggested by Peters, but doubtless 

 the town of that name in California not very distant from Monterey. Only 

 one species of mole is known to occur at this locality, and the specimen is 

 typical of this species. The hind foot to end of claws measures 18.7 mm. 

 The fragmentary skull, which Dr. Matschie caused to be removed from the 

 mounted specimen, presents the following measurements, all decidedly 

 smaller than S. townsendi: Length of upper toothrow from front of incisor to 

 back of last molar, 15.4; of lower toothrow, 13.7 ; outside width at second 

 upper molar, 10.2. 



* The letter N following the name is intended as an abbreviation ofnobis and the 

 asterisk after the word Lichtenstein which is found in the museum register, indicates, 

 as Dr. Matschie informs me, a type specimen. The entry was made by Peters in 1860. 



