LEPUS. 343 



Bangs' Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Liberty Hill, New London County, Connecticut. 



Geogr. Distr. East side of lower Hudson River, New York, along 

 the Alleghanies to West Virginia, north to southern New Hampshire, 

 and west to Hudson River. 



d. Lepus floridanus alacer (Bangs). 



Lepus sylvaticus alacer Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., x, 1896, 



p. 136. 

 Lepus -floridanus alacer Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 



II, 1901, p. 282. Zool. Ser. * 

 Lively Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Stilwell, Boston Mountains, Indian Territory. 

 Geogr. Distr. Missouri, south to Indian and Oklahoma Territories. 



e. Lepus floridcinus ch((pinani (Allen). 



Lepus sylvaticus bachmani Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 



1894, p. 170. (nee Waterhouse.) 

 Lepus floridanus chapmani Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1899, p. 12. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 

 1901, p. 282. Zool. Ser. 

 Chapman's Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas. 

 Geogr. Distr. Texas ; common in chapparal regions south of Bexar 

 County. 



/. Lepus floridanus connectens Nelson. 



I^pus floridanus connectens Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 

 1904, p. 105. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, Append., p. 743. Zool. Ser. 

 Alta Mtra Cotton-tail. 



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 the east slope of the Cordillera of 

 eastern San Luis Potosi, eastern Puebla„and eastern Oaxaca, and 

 south to Mt. Zempoaltepec. 



^. Lepus floridanus sii)ipUcicairus (Miller). 



Lepus simplicicanus Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv, 1902, p. 81. 

 Allied Cotton-tail. 



Type locality. Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Texas. Range undetermined. 



