176 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



Amer. Fauna No. 45, p. 73, Oct. 28, 1921), west through coastal Louisiana to 

 Matagorda Bay, Tex.; vertical range, below 50 feet; zonal range, Lower Austral 

 (Nelson, loc. cit.). 



Subgenus TAPETI ^ Gray 



1867. Taped Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 224, September 

 1867. (Type, Lepus brasiliensis Linnaeus.) 



Sylvilagus brasiliensis truei (J. A. Allen) * 



1890. Lepus truei J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 192, Dec. 



10, 1890. 

 1909. Sylvilagus gabhi truei Nelson, North Amer. Fauna No. 29, p. 262, Aug. 



31, 1909. 

 1950. Sylvilagus brasiliensis truei Hershkovitz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 100, 



p. 351, May 26, 1950. 

 Type Locality. — Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico. Range. — Heavily forested moun- 

 tain slopes and adjacent coastal plain of eastern Mexico from San Luis Potosi 

 (Rancho Apetsco, near Xilitla; Dalquest, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State 

 Univ. No. 23, p. 4, July 10, 1950), Veracruz, eastern Puebla, northeastern 

 Oaxaca, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, interior and Pacific coast of Chiapas; 

 vertical range, from a little above sea level to about 5,000 feet in Veracruz; zonal 

 range, Humid Tropical (Nelson, loc. cit.). 



Sylvilagus brasiliensis gabbi (J. A. Allen) f* 



1877. Lepus brasiliensis var. gabbi J. A. Allen, in Coues and Allen, Mono- 

 graphs of North American Rodentia (U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., Rep., 

 vol. 11, Washington), p. 349, August 1877. 

 1884. Lepus brasiliensis gabbi True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 602, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1904. Sylvilagus gabbi Lyon, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 45, p. 336, June 



15, 1904. 

 1908. Lepus gabbi tumacus J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, 



p. 649, Oct. 13, 1908. (Tuma, Matagalpa, Nicaragua.) 

 1950. Sylvilagus brasiliensis gabbi Hershkovitz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



100, p. 351, May 26, 1950. 

 Type Locality. — Costa Rica and Chiriqui; restricted by Nelson (North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 29, p. 259, Aug. 31, 1909), by designation of type specimen, to Tala- 

 manca [= Sipurio, Rio Sixaola, Limon, near Caribbean coast], Costa Rica. 

 Range. — Eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, eastern Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 358, Dec. 31, 1946), and western Panama 

 (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, p. 146, Apr. 26, 1920). 



Sylvilagus brasiliensis dicei Harris 



1932. Sylvilagus dicei Harris, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan No. 248, 



p. 1, Aug. 4, 1932. 

 1950. Sylvilagus brasiliensis dicei Hershkovitz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



100, p. 352, May 26, 1950. 

 Type Locality. — El Copey de Dota, 15 miles south of Cartago, Cordillera de 

 Talamanca, Cartago, Costa Rica. Altitude 6,000 feet. Range. — Mountain re- 



ei Revised by Hershkovitz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 100, pp. 349-375, May 26, 1950. 



