340 ROMEROLAGUS. LEPUS. 



Nelson's Hare, 



Type locality. West slope of Mt. Popocatepetl, State of Mexico, 

 Mexico. Altitude, 10,000 to 12,000 feet. 



Geogr. Distr. Mt. Popocatepetl and Mt. Iztaccihuatl, State of 

 Mexico, Mexico. 



Genus iii. Lepiis, 



Lepus Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 57; i, 1766, p. 77. Type Lepus 



timidus Linnaeus. 

 Hydrolagus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx, 1867, p. 221. 

 Sylvilagus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx, 1867, p. 222. 

 Tapeti Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d Ser., xx, 1867, p. 224. 

 Macrotolagus Mearns, Science, i, 1895, P- ^9^- 

 Microlagiis Trouess., Cat. Mamm. vivent. quam fossil., 1897, fasc. 



Ill, p. 660. 

 Limnolagus Mearns, Science, N. S., v, 1897, p. 393. 

 Brachylagus Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, 1900, p. 157. 



Subgenus A. Limnolagus. Swamp Hares. 

 854. Lepus aquaticus Bachman. 



Lepus aquaticus Bachm., Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1837, p. 

 319. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 277. Zool. Ser. 

 Great Swamp Hare. 



Type locality. Alabama. 



Geogr. Distr. Gulf states, from Alabama to Texas, and north- 

 ward to southern Illinois in the interior about Mound City and Cairo ; 

 up the Ohio to the Wabash and "on the Mississippi to Cape Girar- 

 deau, and possibly higher where swamps extend." 



a. Lepus aquaticus attwateri Allen. 



Lepus aquaticus attwateri Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1895, p. 327. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 278. Zool. Ser. Id. Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. 

 Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, p. 414, pi. xl. Zool. 

 Ser. 

 Attwater's Swamp Hare. 



Type locality. Medina River, eighteen miles south of San Antonio, 

 Bexar County, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Yucatan, Mexico, to southeastern Texas. 



