Color. Above yellowish brown lined with black; sides pale and 

 with less black; breast dusky yellowish brown; chin and belly white; 

 tail above dusky reddish brown; beneath white; black spot on fore- 

 head; feet dark chestnut brown; ears dark brown, bordered with white 

 in front, with fulvous behind. Sides of head with sometimes a black 

 patch on cheeks. Nape reddish brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 530; tail vertebrae, 40; hind foot, 

 119; ear, 76. 



a.— attwateri. {Lepus), Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1895, 



P- 327- 



Type locality. Medina River, 18 miles south of San Antonio, 

 Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Southeastern Texas, limits not known. 



Genl. Char. Color paler than those of L. aqiiaticus. Size 

 similar. 



Color. Above pale buffy gray lined with black; sides whitish 

 gray tinged with buff; dorsal region tinged with yellowish, darkest on 

 the rump; belly and inside of legs white. Back sometimes nearly all 

 black; ears sparsely haired, reddish brown outside, with a narrow 

 white border anteriorly; curved black line at corner of eye across 

 cheek; tail reddish brown above, white below; feet fulvous above, 

 soles dusky. 



Measurements. Total length, 520; tail to end of hairs, 83; hind 

 foot, 105; ear, 65. 



424. telmalemonus. {Lepus), Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., 1899, 

 I, p. 285, Zoology. 



Type locality. Washita River, near Dougherty, Indian Territory. 



Geogr. Distr. Indian Territory, limits of range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Sexes unlike. Male with pale silvery gray color; 

 female yellowish buff; side large. Nasals very broad, 16 mm. pos- 

 teriorly. 



Color. Male. Sides of face and flanks silvery gray; upper parts 

 silvery gray tinged with yellow, becoming pale brown at base of tail; 

 all the hairs tipped with black, bases plumbeous. Dorsal surface but 

 slightly darker than flanks. Back of neck chestnut. Nose to crown 

 light buff lined with black; back of head light gray with a narrow 

 black line down the center. Around eye light buff broadest pos- 

 teriorly. Broad black lines across cheeks. Upper and under surface 

 of fore legs pale fulvous, same spots on hind legs inclining to white. 

 Broad pectoral band pale fulvous. Rest of under parts and inside of 

 legs white. Ears light buff heavily lined with black; inside pearly 

 gray. Tail snuff brown above, hairs tipped with fulvous, beneath white. 



