LEPUS, 419 
mixed gray buff and black; fore feet buff; hind feet white; tail above 
ochraceous buff, beneath white; ears dark brown sprinkled with buff, 
darkest at tip, anterior border for three-fourths its length from base, 
white. : 
Measurements. Hind foot, 72; ear from notch, 54; from head, 62 
(skin). Skull: occipito-nasal length, 66; median length of nasals, 19; 
lateral length of nasals, 27; posterior width of nasals, 11; anterior 
width, 8; distance from anterior premolar to alveolus of incisor, 19; 
length of palatine foramina, 16; least interorbital width, anterior to 
postorbital processes, 11; length of palate, 5; width of palate, 8. 
floridanus yuecatanicus (Lepus), Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. 
Phil., 1889, p. 384. 
Yucatan Hare. 
Type locality. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. Yucatan, Mexico; limits of range unknown. 
Genl. Char. Similar to L. 7. aztecus, but larger in size, and darker 
in color. 
Color. Above mixed black and buff, lightest on rump and sides; 
nape cinnamon rufous, crown of head like back but darker; orbital 
ring whitish; breast ochraceous buff; rest of under parts white; thighs 
gray; legs cinnamon rufous with a white line on inner side, including 
the hind foot, but only reaching the wrist on fore legs; ears gray, 
fringed with pale buff on anterior margin, changing to black near tip; 
interior of ears whitish; tail mixed reddish brown and black above, 
white beneath. 
Measurements. Total length, 430; hind foot, 198; ear from crown, 
71. Skull: greatest length, 82; basal length, 64; posterior margin of 
palate to tip of hamular process, 17; zygomatic breadth, 39; inter- 
orbital constriction, 20; greatest length of nasals, 37; greatest breadth 
of nasals, 16; length of incisive foramina, 21; length of upper molar 
series, 14; length of mandible, 62; lower molar series, 14.6. 
floridanus holzneri (Lepus), Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, 
p-554. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., rgo1, p. 284. 
rigidus. Mearns, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 18, 1895, p.555. (Wunter 
pelage.) ; 
HouzNer’s Hare. 
Type locality. Near the summit of Huachuca Mountains, south- 
ern Arizona. 
Geogr. Distr. Southern Arizona and northern New Mexico to 
northern Mexico in States of Sonora and Chihuahua. 
Genl. Char... Size large; ears rather short; hind feet long; colors 
dark; nasals extending beyond premaxille. 
