418 LEPUS. 
gray exteriorly, buff interiorly; black along anterior border near tip, 
extreme anterior margin pale buff. 
Measurements. Total length, 434; tail vertebre, 47; hind foot, 86; 
ear from crown, 76. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 73; Hensel, 52; 
zygomatic width, 34; length of nasals (outer side), 30; (median), 22.5; 
palatal length, 7; length of incisive foramina, 17; upper tooth 
row, 7. 
floridanus aztecws (Lepus), Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
1890, p. 188. 
TEHUANTEPEC HARE. 
Type locality. Tehuantepec City, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Smaller than L. floridanus, lighter in color and ears 
larger; palatal arch round. 
Color. Above and sides of neck buffy cinnamon and black; sides 
gray, with buffy cinnamon band in front of thighs; nape and outer 
surface of limbs yellowish rufous; under parts white; chest yellowish 
white; eye stripe grayish white; cheeks gray; fore feet yellowish white; 
hind feet pure white; tail above cinnamon rufous, like rump; ears dark 
brownish gray, blackish at tip, anterior border white basally. 
Measurements. Total length, 300; tail to end of hairs, 37; hind 
foot, 82; ear from notch, 64. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 71; median 
length of nasals, 25; lateral length of nasals, 33; posterior width of 
nasals, 16; anterior width, 9; distance from anterior premolar to 
alveolus of incisor, 19.5; length of palatine foramina, 16.5; least inter- 
orbital width anterior to postorbital processes, 18; length of palate, 7; 
width of palate, 9. 
floridanus persultator (Lepus), Elliot, Pub. Field. Columb. Mus., 111, 
1903, p. 147. Zodlogy. 
PUEBLA HARE. 
Type locality. Puebla, State of Puebla, Mexico. 
Genl. Char. In color very closely resembling L. f. subcinctus, but 
smaller in all its dimensions. Skull is distinguished for the straight- 
ness of its anterior superior gutline, the nasals being flat and on a line 
with the frontals; posterior portion of skull from behind orbits curving 
sharply downward; nasals broad, abruptly compressed near anterior 
termination; ears short; palatal arch with azygos process in center. 
Color. Top of head cinnamon rufous and black, rest of upper parts 
except rump mixed black and ochraceous buff; sides gray; rump gray 
and black; nape and outer surface of limbs yellowish rufous; ochra- 
ceous buff band in front of thighs; pectoral band pale yellowish rufous; 
under parts white; eye stripe buff; orbital ring cream buff; cheeks 
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