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clear grizzled gray; under fur drab, tips of long hairs black, and a 







subterminal white band; dorsal region darker than rest of upperparts 

 and sides; black band across face broad; underparts drab, long hairs 

 white, a broad dark iiiterramial band; fore legs like flanks but tinged 

 with drab; hind legs blackish above heel on inner side; tail buff, 

 with seven black rather narrow rings. Ex type in United States 

 National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 665; tail, 235; hind foot, 97. 

 Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 93.1; Hensel, 25.1; zygomatic width, 

 63.6; intertemporal length, 20.4; length of nasals, 23.2; length of 

 upper molar series, 34; length of mandible, 75; length of lower molar 

 series, 37.3. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Procyon lotor crassidens Hollister. 



Procyon lotor crassidens Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, 

 1914, p. 142. 



Type locality. Talamanca, Costa Rica. 



Genl. Char. Similar to P. I. hernandezii, but with larger molars. 



Color. Face with usual mask and markings; crown and upper- 

 parts blackish gray, hairs ringed with buff, tips black, under fur 

 Prout's-brown ; a black line from ears to withers; arms btiffy; legs 

 like back; tail ringed with black and pale orange-yellow; underparts, 

 hands and feet buffy. Type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 925; tail, 325; foot, 118. Skull: 

 Total length, -; zygomatic width, 75.5; interorbital width, 25.7; 

 length of nasals, 34.5; mastoid width, 65.8. Type in United States 

 National Museum. 



Procyon lotor fuscipes Mearns. 



Procyon lotor fuscipes Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, 

 1914, p. 63. 



Type locality. Las Moras Creek, Fort Clark, Kinney County, 

 Texas. 



Genl. Char. Size large, similar to P. lotor, with colors varying in 

 hue and distribution. Skull with slender, lengthened rostrum; 

 palate narrow; bullae long, flattened externally. 



Color. Black face-mask solid and continuous on side of head below 

 ear and extending from grizzled black crown to end of nose; grizzled 

 area borders the black mask; sides of muzzle and lower lip white; 

 nape washed with rust color; this hue indistinct on interscapular 

 region; upperparts from nape to tail pale gray, the long hairs with 

 black tips, this color being prominent on lower dorsal region; fore and 

 hind legs and feet fuscous and gray mixed; throat benzo-brown; 



