Produced by Chris Curnow, Erica Pfister-Altschul, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) From Colorado BY ROBERT B. FINLEY, JR. University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 5, No. 30, pp. 527-534, 2 figures in text August 15, 1953 University of Kansas LAWRENCE 1953 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson Volume 5, No. 30, pp. 527-534, 2 figures in text August 15, 1953 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence 1953 PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1953 [Illustration] 24-7674 A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado By ROBERT B. FINLEY, JR. Field and museum studies of the wood rats of Colorado have revealed the existence of an unnamed subspecies of _Neotoma mexicana_ in eastern Colorado south of the Arkansas River. The characters of the new subspecies are most distinctive in the northeastern part of its range near Two Buttes and Higbee. It differs in cranial characters from _N. m. fallax_ and _N. m. inopinata_ and averages slightly larger, but cannot be distinguished by coloration of the pelage. This heretofore undescribed subspecies may be known as: #Neotoma mexicana scopulorum# subsp. nov. _Type._--Mus. Nat. Hist., Univ. Kansas, No. 37137, old adult male, skin and skull; from 37 deg. 47' N, 103 deg. 28' W, three miles northwest of Higbee, 4300 feet, Otero County, Colorado; trapped 16 May 1950 by R. B. Finley, Jr., original number 500516-1. _Range._--Canyons, mesas, and foothills south of the Arkansas River, east to Two Buttes, Colorado, and south to Clayton, New Mexico. The extent of the range to the southwest in New Mexico has not been determined. _Diagnosis._--Size large for the species; interorbital constriction near middle of frontal rather than anteriorly; supraorbital ridges of frontal concave laterally; skull large, strongly arched at base of rostrum; rostrum wide; nasals wide anteriorly; upper incisors wide, light yellow; molars large, tooth-rows long; zygomatic arches wide and heavy; interparietal short, wide, and posterior margin straight or with a slight posterior median angle.