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Holotype.— Adult female, skin and skull, B.M. No. 94.9.25.18; 

 collected January 1894, by A. Mocquerys. 



Type locality. — Cumana, Sucre, coast of Venezuela. 



Distribution. — Northern coastal plain of Venezuela in the state of 

 Sucre and, according to Hummelinck {supra cit., p. 101),"inCarabobo, 

 Falc6n and ? Aragua." 



Characters. — A pale, rufous-naped cottontail, essentially as in 

 margaritae, paler than valenciae. 



Remarks. — No typical specimens of cumanicus are at hand. Ac- 

 cording to Thomas, there is little if any difference between cumanicus 

 and its nearest geographic ally, margaritae, described a year later. 



Specimen examined. — One. The type (B.M.). 



SYLVILAGUS FLOKIDANUS VALENCIAE Thomas 



Sylvilagus cumanicus, Osgood {nee Thomas, 1897), Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 



zool. ser., vol. 10, p. 28, 1910 (Maracay). 

 Sylvilagus valenciae Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 14, p. 413, 1914. 

 Sylvilagus cumanicus cumanicus, Hummelinck, Studies on the fauna of Curagao, 



Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan Islands, vol. 2 (The Hague), p. 100, 



1940 (part; Sylvilagus valenciae in synonymy). 



Holotype. — Adult male, skin and skull, B.M. No. 14.9.1.84; col- 

 lected May 15, 1914, by Samuel M. Klages; original number, 80. 



Type locality.— Fil Trompillo, southeast of Lake Valencia, Carabobo, 

 northern Venezuela; altitude, 1,300 feet. 



Distribution. — Known only from vicinity of Lake Valencia. 



Characters. — More warmly colored tlu-oughout than any other 

 Neotropical rufous-naped cottontail; rump and sides less contrasted 

 with back, crown with more black, side of face huffier and lined with 

 black; under side of tail not sharply contrasted xnth upper. Size 

 and cranial characters as in margaritae and presumably as in cumanicus. 



Measurements. — Of a male from Maracay, northeast side of Lake 

 Valencia: Total length, 455; hind foot, 89; ear, dry from notch, 57; 

 condylobasal length, 73.3; zygomatic breadth, 37.1; length of nasals, 

 37.2; greatest combined width of nasals at premaxillary sutiu-es, 

 16.7; least length of palatal bridge, 7.8; greatest distance between 

 outer sides of maxillary plates of tooth rows, 22.7; alveolar length 

 of molar row, 15.2. 



Remarks. — The specimen at hand is readily distinguished from 

 margaritae and rufous-naped representatives of continentis. Its dis- 

 tinction from the earlier described orinoci is less clear though possibly 

 valid. Hummelinck (supra cit., p. 101) inferred from the original 

 description that "valenciae might be considered identical with S. 

 cumanicus, possibly even with the typical subspecies." 



Specimens examined. — Two. The tvpe (B.M.); Maracay, 1 

 (C.N.H.M.). 



