490 PROCYON. 



9.3. Procyoii. Raccoons. 



Procyon Storr, Prodr. Meth., Mamm., 1780, p. 35, Tab. A. Type 



Ursus lotor Linnaeus. 

 Lotor Cuv. & Geoff., Mag. Encyclop., 1795, No. vi, Oken. Lehrb. 



Naturg., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., 1816, p. 1080. 

 Euprocyon Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 705. 

 Body stout; tail moderately long, semi-bushy, annulated; ears 

 short, hairy; soles naked; muzzle acuminate. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. 

 A. Tail bushy, short, ringed with black. 



a. Size small; hind foot less than four inches in 



length; teeth small. PAGE 



a/ Shoulder patch normal in color ........... P. pygmaus 490 



b/ Shoulder patch covered with black hairs. .P. maynardi 490 



b. Size large; hind foot over four inches in 

 length. 



a/ Fur long; teeth moderately large. 



a." Pterygoids tapering anteriorly to a thin 



point ............................ P.I. hernandezi 491 



b." Pterygoids truncate anteriorly ........ P.I. insularis 492 



b/ Fur short; teeth large, powerful (Eupro- 



cyon} ................................ P. cancrivorus 492 



484. pygmaeus (Procyon'), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, 



p. 101. 

 LITTLE RACCOON. 



Type locality. Island of Cozumel, Yucatan, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Similar to P. I. hernandezi, but much smaller. 



Color. Above mixed black and gray, with a yellowish tinge on 

 median line; transverse black bar across face, succeeded above by a 

 whitish one with a median dusky line; chin, lips, and sides of throat 

 whitish; dusky band across throat; under parts grizzled gray, tinged 

 with yellowish; tail yellowish, with six or more dark brown rings 

 rather faint on the under side ; ankles dusky ; hands and feet grayish, 

 the latter suffused with brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 667; tail vertebras, 230; hind foot, 

 90. Skull: basal length, 88; occipito-nasal length, 88; palatal length, 

 58; zygomatic breadth, 59; length of upper molar series, 17. 



485. maynardi (Procyon), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xn, 1898, 



p. 92. 



