4".-. MEPHITIS. 



Subgenus A. Chincha. Large-striped Skunks. 



983. Mephitis mephitis (Schreber). 



r/n'rra mephitis Schreb., Saugth., in, 1776, p. 444, tab. 121. 



Mephitis mcphitica Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 



n, 1901, p. 322, fig. 64. (Part.) Zool. Ser. 

 CANADA SKUNK. 



Type locality. North America. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern Canada Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern 

 Ontario, west and north to Oxford House, Keewatin, Canada. 



984. Mephitis hudsonia (Richardson). 



Mephitis americana var. hudsonica Rich., Faun. Bor. Amer., I 

 Mamm., 1829, p. 55. 



Mephitis inephitiea hudsonia Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 



Pub., n, 1901, p. 322. Zool. Ser. 

 NORTHERN PLAINS SKUNK. 



Type locality. Plains of the Saskatchewan. 



Geogr. Distr. Western Canada from Manitoba to British Columbia 

 (east of the Cascades) ; south in the United States to Colorado, Ne- 

 braska, and Minnesota. 



985. Mephitis *olida Boitard. 



Mephitis putida G. Cuv., Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., 1798, pp. 



116, 117. (Indeterminable.) Boitard, Jard. Plantes, Paris, 



Mamm., 1842, p. 147. (Untenable.) 

 Mephitis olida Boitard, Jard. Plantes, Paris, Mamm., iS4_\ p. 



i47- 

 Me pint is fetidissima Boitard, Jard. Plantes, Paris, Mamm., 1842, 



p. 147. 

 Mephitis mcphitica Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 



n, 1901, p. 322. (Part.) Zool. Ser. 

 EASTERN SKUNK. 



Type locality. New Jersey. 



Geogr. Distr. New England and Middle Atlantic States, south to 

 Virginia; west to Indiana. 



986. Mephitis elonjjata (Bangs). 



Mephitis nii-pliilii'ii <7<>;/i',;/,/ Bangs, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



1895, P- S3' 



Mephitis ita Elliot, 'Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 1'ub., n, 



, p. 324. Zoul. Ser. 



*As both f>itti<lti Cuvier, and pntiJa Hoitard arc inadmissible, the first 

 because it niuable and tlie latter because it was previously used by 



Cuvier, oil :ard (1. C.), 1 1 he name that should properly be em- 



ployed. (On this su: 66 Allen. PrOC Hiol. Soc. \Vash., xv, 1902, p. 66.) 



