DESCRIPTIONS OF APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES AND SUB- 

 SPECIES OF MAMMALS FROM THE INDIAN TERRITORY. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, F.R.S.E. 



Lepus telmalemonus.* 



Type locality. Dense thickets and bottom lands of Washita 

 River, near Dougherty, Indian Territory. Collected April 12th 

 and 13th, 1899, by Thaddeus Surber. 



General characters. Probably nearest to Z. a. attwateri, 

 Allen, from Southern Texas, near San Antonio, but is larger in 

 some respects and with a very differently colored pelage. The 

 male and female are very unlike in appearance, although killed 

 within a day of each other, and there is no evidence perceptible 

 of the coat being in change. 



Color, Adult Male. Sides of face and flanks silvery gray; 

 upper parts also silvery gray but with a yellow tinge, and becom- 

 ing pale brown near base of tail. All the hairs tipped with black, 

 and plumbeous at base. The dorsal surface is only slightly 

 darker than the flanks, and that is caused by the yellow tinge. 

 Back of neck chestnut. Nose to crown light buff lined with 

 black. Back of head light gray, with a narrow black line down 

 the center. Light buff around the eye, broadest and most con- 

 spicuous behind. Rather broad black line across the cheeks. 

 Upper and outer surface of fore legs pale fulvous, those parts on 

 hind legs even lighter, inclining to white. Pectoral band very 

 broad, pale fulvous. Rest of under parts with inside of forelegs 

 and thighs white. Ears light buff, heavily lined with black; in- 

 side pearly gray, nearly bare of hair at the center. Tail snuff 

 brown above, the hairs tipped with fulvous, beneath white. 



Measurements. (Taken by the Collector in the flesh.) Adult: 

 Total, length, 540 mm.; tail, 75; hind foot, no. Ears from notch 

 (measured in skin), 69. 



Skull. Distinct and regular curve from occiput to anterior end 

 of nasals", the slope being steepest from posterior line of orbit to 



* TeXjAix Swamp, aXyi-ioov Wanderer. 



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