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Type locality. — Mountains near Ozolotepec, State of Oaxaca, 
Mexico. 
Peromyscus megalotis (Merriam). 
1890. Hesperoinys megalotis Merriam, North Amer. fauna, 
no. 3, p 64. September 11, 1890. 
1895. Peromyscus megalotis Allen, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. 
hist., VII, p. 229. June 29, 1895. 
Type locality. —- Black Tank, Desert of the Little Colorado, 
Coconino County, Arizona. 
Peromyscus mekisturus Merriam. 
1898. Peromyscus 7nekiSturus Merriam, Proc. biol, soc. Wash¬ 
ington, XII, p. 124. April 30, 1898. 
Type locality. — Chalchicomula, State of Puebla, Mexico. 
Altitude, 8400 feet. 
* Peromyscus melanophrys (Coues). 
1874. Hespteroiyiys ( Vespey'imus) melayiopJwys Coues, Proc. 
acad. nat. sci. Phila., p. 181. December 15, 1874. 
1885. Hesperomys fyielanophrys True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 
VII (1884), p. 598. 1885. 
1897. P\ero7nyscits'] melayioplirys Allen, Bull. Amer. mus. 
nat. hist., ix, p. 51. March 15, 1897. 
Type locality. — Santa Eligenia, Tehuantepec, Mexico. 
Peromyscus melanotis Allen and Chapman. 
1897. Peromyscus melanotis Allen and Chapman, Bull. 
Amer. mus. nat. hist., ix, p. 203. June 16, 1897. 
Type locality.— Las Vigas, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Peromyscus merriami Mearns. 
1896. Peromyscus merriami Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses 
of new mammals from the Mexican border of the United 
States, p. 2. May 25, 1896. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. nat. 
mus., XIX, p. 138. December 21, 1896.) 
Type locality. — Village of Sonoyta, on the Sonoyta River, 
State of Sonora, Mexico. 
* Peromyscus mexicanus (Saussure). 
1860. Hesperomys mexicmms Saussure, Revue et magasin 
de zoologie, 2d ser., xii, p. 103. 
1885. Hesperomys 7nexicanus True, Proc. U. S. nat mus., 
VII (1884), p. 597. 1885. 
