BASSARISCUS. 485 



Type locality. Southern Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. State of Mexico north to California. 



Genl. Char. Body slender, elongate; muzzle pointed; tail long, 

 bushy; claws half retractile. Skull long, slender; postorbital process 

 of frontal bone short; upper sectorial with inner cusp much devel- 

 oped; anterior cusp of lower sectorial shortest. 



Color. Above yellowish brown and gray mixed, below white; 

 legs and feet like the body; tail white, with six or eight alternate 

 black rings. 



Measurements. Total length, about 720; tail to end of hairs, 360. 

 Skull: occiput to incisors, 79; Hensel, 69; zygomatic width, 47; mas- 

 toid width, 35; occipito-sphenoid length, 35; interorbital constric- 

 tion, 21. 



a. flavus (Bassariscus}, Rhodes, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1893, 



p. 417. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 316. 

 TAWNY RACCOON-FOX. 



Type locality. Texas. 



Geogr. Distr. Northern Mexico near boundary line, into Texas. 



Genl. Char. Smaller than B. astutus; tail shorter than body, 

 often entirely encircled by the black rings. 



Color. Above blackish tawny, darkest on median line; sides 

 yellowish; beneath tawny, lightest on throat and neck; tawny spots 

 above and below eyes and at ear. 



Measurements. Total length, 680-800; tail, 304-380; hind foot, 

 55-60. Skull: total length, 80; greatest breadth, 50; interorbital 

 constriction, 20; tip to tip of postorbital processes, 30. 



480. saxicola (Bassariscus) , Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897, 



p. 185. 

 ESPIRITO SANTO RACCOON-FOX. 



Type locality. Esperito Santo Island, Lower California, Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from type locality. 



Genl. Char. Similar to B. a. flavus, but smaller. 



Color. Above mixed drab brown and black; under parts pale 

 buffy ochraceous; dark patch between eyes and nose, and a large 

 one between eye and ear; tail with eight or nine black rings not 

 meeting beneath ; eight white triangles on under side. 



Measurements. Total length, 737 ; tail vertebrae, 370 ; hind foot, 60. 



sumichrasti notinus (Bassariscus) , Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



7th Ser., xi, 1903, p. 379. 

 BOQUETE RACCOON-FOX. 



Type locality. Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama. Altitude, 6,000 feet. 



