BASSARISCUS. BASSARICYON. 487 



feet with terminal part and toes whitish; tail very long with alter- 

 nating white and black rings and tip black; the black rings much 

 broader than the white and not meeting beneath; ears, basal half 

 black, remainder white; whiskers very long, jet black. 



Measurements. Total length, 870; tail, 425; hind foot, 80. Skull: 

 total length, 89; occipito-nasal length, 80; Hensel, 80; zygomatic 

 width, 53; interorbital constriction, 17; postorbital constriction, 18; 

 width across postorbital processes, 25.5; greatest width of braincase, 

 36; length of nasals, 20.5; mastoid width, 36; length of pterygoid 

 fossa, 1 8 ; palatal length, 37.5 ; width of palate between last molars, 1 2 ; 

 between canines, 10.5; length of upper tooth row from anterior edge 

 of canine, alveolar border, 34; length of canine, n; length of man- 

 dible, 55; height of coronoid process, 23; at angle, 9; length of lower 

 molars series, alveolar border, 27 ; from anterior edge of canine, 34. 



482. annulatus (Paradoxurus}, Wagn., Schreb. Siiugeth., Suppl., n, 



1841, p. 353. 

 stimichrasti Sauss., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me S6r., 1860, p. 7, pi. i. 



True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, p. 608. 

 variabilis Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Ak. Wiss. Berl., 1874, p. 



704, pis. i, n. 



monticola Cordero, La Nature, in, 1875, p. 269. 

 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. 



Genl. Char. Tail long, bushy, ringed; ears densely covered with 

 hair. 



Color. Above mixed black and golden brown, with grayish 

 white hairs intermingled; nose and stripe to eye black, mixed with 

 gray on nose; rest of head mixed black and yellow; under parts yel- 

 lowish white; ears black externally, yellowish internally, edge red- 

 dish; tail reddish yellow, with nine to ten black rings, tip black. 

 Measurements. Total length, 420; tail, 190. 



92. Bassaricyoii. 



T 3 3. pi" 1 . pfc3. \f 33 _ , n 

 1- F3' U M ; *S-3' M -3-3- 4 ' 



Bassaricyon Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1876, p. 20. Type 

 Bassaricyon gabbi Allen. 



Skull : Superior outline much curved, the anterior slope being 

 very marked; braincase wide, large; temporal ridges separated; post- 

 orbital processes long, broad at base, pointed, the tips inclined back- 



