Lepus cornus Allen, 1927 . Am. Mus. Novit., No 284:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Teng-yueh [Tengueh], Yunnan Province, China, 5,500 feet altitude."

DISTRIBUTION: Yunnan, W Guizhou (China).

STATUS: Probably secure at present (Flux and Angermann, 1990).

SYNONYMS: peni Wang and Luo, 1985; pygmaeus Wang and Feng, 1985.

COMMENTS: Formerly included in oiostolus; see Corbet (1978c). Elevated to specific status by Cai and Feng (1982) and Wang et al. (1985), on the basis of morphological and ecological differences. May be allo- or parapatric with oiostolus . Possibly related to nigricollis (Flux and Angermann, 1990) .