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Fam. 1X. Leporidze. 
85. Lepus. 
B. Silvilagus. 
429a. insonus (Lepus), Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 1904, 
D. 19%: 
OMILTEME RABBIT. 
Type locality. Omilteme, State of Guerrero, Mexico. 
Color. Spring pelage. Top of head and back dark ochraceous 
buffy, grizzled with black; cheeks and sides of rump and body grayer; 
sides of nose and about eyes buffy gray; nape rusty rufous; neck on 
sides and beneath dark buffy; rest of under parts white, base of fur 
bluish; under side of fore legs and tops of feet dingy white, front and 
sides of fore legs to shoulders tawny ochraceous; front of hind legs and 
tops of feet dingy whitish, rest of hind legs like sides washed with 
tawny ochraceous; soles of feet dark smoke brown; tail above dark 
reddish brown, beneath dingy brownish buffy; ears dark grizzled black- 
ish brown, darkest on anterior border and at tip. 
Measurements. Total length, 430; tail vertebrez, 40; hind foot, 93; 
ear from notch (dried skin), 62. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 75; 
Hensel, 57; interorbital width, 17.5; parietal width, 26; length of 
nasals, 31.5; breadth of rostrum above front of base of premolar, 17; 
greatest diameter of bulla, 9. 
floridanus connectens (Lepus), Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. xvi, 1904, 
p. TOs. 
Atta MIRA COTTONTAIL. 
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 east slope of the Cordillera of eastern 
San Luis Potosi, eastern Puebla, and eastern Oaxaca, and south to 
Mt. Zempoaltepec. 
Genl. Char. Similar to L. floridanus, but larger and paler. Skull 
longer, narrower, bulla smaller, nasals longer, more slender. 
Color. Winter pelage. Top of head and back grizzled creamy 
ochraceous buff, washed with blackish; sides of head, body, and rump 
grayer; nape bright cinnamon or light cinnamon rufous, orbital area 
white; neck on sides and beneath dull ochraceous buff; front of fore 
legs and outside of hind legs cinnamon rufous; back of fore legs and 
front of hind legs and tops of hind feet white suffused with buff on 
feet and toes; tail above reddish brown; ears brownish gray, darkest 
at tips and narrowly edged with white. 
