no Nehon—Seven Xew Rabbits. 



often equalling black band^^ in width; skull larger and heavier, with longer 

 rostrum than in L. merrinmi. 



Divcriptiou of fi/pe in raOier ivorn itprvKj pelage. — Top of head grizzled 

 grayish bulfy ; back dull creamy buffy grizzled and mottled with overlying 

 black tips to hairs ; sides of bfxly slightly paler buffy grizzled with grayish ; 

 thighs and sides of rump up nearly to median line of back rather pale iron 

 gray ; top of fore feet and legs diugy buffy ; top of liind feet white; top of 

 tail and narrow line extending forward along middle of rum]) black ; under 

 side of tail grayish white ; sides of head, witli sides and under part of neck, 

 bright buff, with some black grizzling on sides of head ; nape with a narrow 

 black band extending back from base of each ear with a median l)and of 

 buffy of equal width separating the two black Ijands; ear on front half of 

 convex surface grizzled yellowish buffy and bordered along edge by a 

 fringe of buffy hairs; posterior half of convex surface blackish at base and 

 shading into gfayish wliite on middle and pure white on terminal i)art, 

 which lacks any sign of a black margin or tip; posterior border of ear buffj^ 

 on basal half; white along rest of margin (pure on convex side, shaded 

 with buffy on concave side) to near tip, which is buffy. 



Shdl eharncters. — Skull nmch as in typical L. merrimni, but longer and 

 rather heavier, with longer and heavier rostrum. 



Measuremenii'. (jf type {taken in.Jiesli). — Total length, (505 ; tail vertebrte, 96; 

 hind foot, 137 ; ear from notch (from, dried skin), 112. 



MedSHfemenls of ti/pe Kkull. — Occipito-nasal length, 99; basal length, 77; 

 length of nasals, 44 ; greatest interorbital l)readth, 24 ; jxirietal breadth, 32; 

 depth of rostrum at front base of premolar, 26 ; width above same point, 26 ; 

 greatest diameter of bullae, 12. 



Specimens examined. —Six. 



General notes. — This form agrees with typical L. merriami in general ap- 

 pearance, but in five out of six specimens examined the black nape patch 

 is divided by a distinct yellow band. The under side of the nec\c is 

 much deeper buffy. and the tips of the ears on the convex side entirelj^ 

 lack any trace of black in three specimens and have only a narrow black 

 edging in the three others examined. The larger skull Avith longer, heavier 

 rostrum is another character. It has a comparatively limited distribution, 

 and occupies the southernmost area occupied by the sjiecies along the Gulf 

 coast of Mexico, and probably does not range as far north as Victoria, 

 Tamaulipas. 



