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 yucatanicus (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., 1901, p. 284. 
rigidus. Mearns, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 18, 1895, p.555. (Winter 
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. 
