APPENDIX. 743 



Fam. IX. Leporidie. 

 85. Lepus. 



B. Silvilagus. 



429a. insonus (Lepus), Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc Wash., xvn, 1904, 



p. 103. 

 OMILTEME RABBIT. 



Type locality. Omilteme, State of 'Guerrero, Mexico. 



Color. Spring pelage. Top of head and back dark ochraceous 

 buffy, grizzled with black; cheeks and sides of rump and body grayer; 

 sides of nose and about eyes buffy gray; nape rusty rufous; neck on 

 sides and beneath dark buffy ; rest of under parts white, base of fur 

 bluish ; under side of fore legs and tops of feet dingy white, front and 

 sides of fore legs to shoulders tawny ochraceous ; front of hind legs and 

 tops of feet dingy whitish, rest of hind legs like sides washed with 

 tawny ochraceous; soles of feet dark smoke brown; tail above dark 

 reddish brown, beneath dingy brownish buffy ; ears dark grizzled black- 

 ish brown, darkest on anterior border and at tip. 



Measurements. Total length, 430; tail vertebrae, 40; hind foot, 93 ; 

 ear from notch (dried skin), 62. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 75; 

 Hensel, 57; interorbital width, 17.5; parietal width, 26; length of 

 nasals, 31.5 ; breadth of rostrum above front of base of premolar, 17 ; 

 greatest diameter of bullae. 9. 



floTidanus connectens (Leptis), Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. xvn, 1904, 



p. 105. 

 ALTA MIRA COTTONTAIL. 



Type locality. Chichicaxtle, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Tropical parts of eastern Mexico from southern 

 Tamaulipas throughout the coast lowlands of the Papaloapam River 

 in central Vera Cruz and along east slope of the Cordillera of eastern 

 San Luis Potosi, eastern Puebla, and eastern Oaxaca, and south to 

 Mt. Zempoaltepec. 



Genl. Char. Similar to L. floridanus, but larger and paler. Skull 

 longer, narrower, bullae smaller, nasals longer, more slender. 



Color. Winter pelage. Top of head and back grizzled creamy 

 ochraceous buff, washed with blackish; sides of head, body, and rump 

 grayer; nape bright cinnamon or light cinnamon rufous, orbital area 

 white; neck on sides and beneath dull ochraceous buff; front of fore 

 legs and outside of hind legs cinnamon rufous; back of fore legs and 

 front of hind legs and tops of hind feet white suffused with buff on 

 feet and toes; tail above reddish brown; ears brownish gray, darkest 

 at tips and narrowly edged with white. 



