418 LEPUS. 



gray exteriorly, buff interiorly; black along anterior border near tip, 

 extreme anterior margin pale buff. 



Measurements. Total length, 434; tail vertebrae, 47 ; hind foot, 86; 

 ear from crown, 76. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 73; Hensel, 52; 

 zygomatic width, 34; length of nasals (outer side), 30; (median), 22.5 ; 

 palatal length, 7; length of incisive foramina, 17; upper tooth 

 row, 7. 



floridanus aztecus (Lepus), Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



1890, p. 188. 

 TEHUANTEPEC HARE. 



Type locality. Tehuantepec City, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Gent. Char. Smaller than L. floridanus, lighter in color and ears 

 larger ; palatal arch round. 



Color. Above and sides of neck buffy cinnamon and black; sides 

 gray, with buffy cinnamon band in front of thighs; nape and outer 

 surface of limbs yellowish rufous; under parts white; chest yellowish 

 white ; eye stripe grayish white ; cheeks gray ; fore feet yellowish white ; 

 hind feet pure white; tail above cinnamon rufous, like rump; ears dark 

 brownish gray, blackish at tip, anterior border white basally. 



Measurements. Total length, 300; tail to end of hairs, 37; hind 

 foot, 82; ear from notch, 64. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 71 ; median 

 length of nasals, 25; lateral length of nasals, 33; posterior width of 

 nasals, 16; anterior width, 9; distance from anterior premolar to 

 alveolus of incisor, 19.5 ; length of palatine foramina, 16.5 ; least inter- 

 orbital width anterior to postorbital processes, 18; length of palate, 7; 

 width of palate, 9. 



floridanus persuMator (Lepus), Elliot, Pub. Field. Columb. Mus., in, 



1903, p. 147. Zoology. 

 PUEBLA HARE. 



Type locality. Puebla, State of Puebla, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. In color very closely resembling L. f. siibcinctus, but 

 smaller in all its dimensions. Skull is distinguished for the straight- 

 ness of its anterior superior outline, the nasals being flat and on a line 

 with the frontals ; posterior portion of skull from behind orbits curving 

 sharply downward; nasals broad, abruptly compressed near anterior 

 termination ; ears short ; palatal arch with azygos process in center. 



Color. Top of head cinnamon rufous and black, rest of upper parts 

 except rump mixed black and ochraceous buff ; sides gray ; rump gray 

 and black ; nape and outer surface of limbs yellowish rufous ; ochra- 

 ceous buff band in front of thighs ; pectoral band pale yellowish rufous ; 

 under parts white; eye stripe buff; orbital ring cream buff; cheeks 



