98 Miller — A New Rabbit from Margarita Island. 



beous. Shoulders, rump, upper surface (if tail and outer sides of all four 

 legs strongly suffused with rufous. Nape patch clear rufous. Crown es- 

 sentially like back, only more finely grizzled and the buff darker. Whole 

 side of head light gray, shaded with dark brown, the gray clearer around 

 eve ( where it forms an indistinct ring) and on sides of muzzle, the brown 

 most conspicuous on cheeks below and behind eye. Whole under parts, 

 with the exception of a broad buffy collar, dull white, faintly darkened 

 by the plumbeous bases of the hairs. The white extends on inner side 

 of front legs to wrists and on hind legs to base of claws. Tail colored like 

 the rump, slightly paler and less rufous ventrally than dorsally. 



Measurements. — Total length (skin), 350; length to end of outstretched 

 hind feet, 445;* tail to end of hairs, 35.6;* hind foot, 8(5; ear from 

 crown, 70; width of ear, 38. Skull: greatest length, 79 ; basilar length, 

 61 ; zygomatic breadth, 30.4; nasals, length 36.8 ; combined width, 18 ; 

 incisive foramen, 12.4 x 7.4 ; maxillary tooth row (alveoli), 15 ; mandible, 

 58; mandibular tooth row (alveoli), 15. 



General remarks. — Were it not for its longer ears, slightly smaller size, 

 and short, dark colored tail, Lepus margaritse would bear a very strong 

 superficial resemblance to L. sylvaticus transitionalis Bangs. Its relation- 

 ships, however, are, as already pointed out, with its nearest geographical 

 ally, L. cumanicus. 



* From fresh specimen by collector. 



