BASSARISCUS. :VJ!> 



SAUSSURE'S RACCOON-FOX. Tepichichi del Co] re de Perots, Caco- 

 mistle de Monte in Mexico. 



Type locality. Tehuantepec, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Unknown. 



Genl. Char. Skull longer than that of B. astntns; zygomatic 

 arches more bowed and heavier; sagittal crest present; the carnassial 

 is shorter than that of the species named, the heel less obliqute and 

 pointed, and the second premolar is longer. 



Color. General hue fawn mixed with black; flanks yellowish 

 spotted with black; under parts yellowish. Head on top gray varied 

 with black; nose brownish black; a buff spot above and below eye; 

 cheeks gray spotted with black; throat and sides of neck whitish 

 buff; chin blackish; a blackish buff band on inner side of fore legs, 

 outer side of fore legs grizzled; outer side of hind legs like back, a 

 mixed buff and black; feet blackish, becoming grayish buff at the toes; 

 tail black, with four or five grayish buff rings on basal half, covered 

 by the long hairs of the black portion; ears grayish buff at tips, 

 brown at base. 



Measurements. Total length, 782; tail vertebras, 431.8. 



a. Bassariscus sn niicliranti uotinus Thomas. 



Bassariscus sumichrasti notinns Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 yth Ser., xi, 1903, p. 379. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & 

 W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. n, 1904, p. 485. Zool. Ser. 

 BOQUETE RACCOON-FOX. 



Type locality. Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama. 



Geogr. Distr. Panama, Central America. Range unknown. 



973. Bassariscus albipes Elliot. 



Bassariscus albipes Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., in, 1903, p. 

 258. Zool. Ser. Id. Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. n, 1904, p. 486. Zool. Ser. 

 WHITE-FOOTED RACCOON-FOX. 



Type locality. Near Vera Cruz, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



974. Bassariscus annulatus (Wagner). 



Paradoxurus annulat^ts Wagn., Schreb. Saugth., Suppl., n, 1841, 



P- 353- 

 Bassariscus annulatus Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 



F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. n, 1904, p. 487. Zool. Ser. 

 SOUTHERN RACCOON-FOX. Tepachiche del Cofre de Perote, Caco- 



mistl de Monte in Mexico, Muyus in Guatemala. 

 Type locality. Unknown. 

 Geogr. Distr. Mexico to Costa Rica. 



