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Measurements. Hind foot, 72;' ears from notch, 54; from 

 head, 62. (Skin.) Skull: occipito-nasal length, 66, median 

 length of nasals, 19; lateral length of nasals, 27; posterior width 

 of nasals, n; anterior width, 8: distance from anterior premolar 

 to alveolus of incisor, 19; length of palatine foramina, 16; least 

 interorbital width anterior to postorbital process, n; length of 

 palate, 5; width of palate, K 



One specimen only. 



SUBGENUS MAC ROTOLAGUS. 



Lepus callotis. Wagl. Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 35. 

 One specimen from Puebla, State of Puebla. 



ORDER CARNIVORA. 



FAM. PROCYONID^E. 



GENUS PROCYON. 



Procyon. Storr. Prod. Meth. Mamtn., 1780, p. 35. 



Procyon lotor hernandezi. Wagl. Isis, 1831, p. 514. 



Two specimens from Puenta de Ixtla, State of Morelos. 



FAM. MUSTELID.E. 

 GENUS *MEPHITIS. 



Mephitis. Cuv. Lee. Anat. Comp., 1800, p. i. 



Mephitis macroura. Licht. Darst. Saugeth., 1832, pi. 46 and text. 



Two specimens from Ocotlan, State of Jalisco. 



One example is entirely black save a short narrow white 

 stripe on sides near the thighs; the other has nape and hind neck 

 and middle of back nearly to thigh, and a narrow stripe from 

 shoulder to thigh, white. 



ORDER IXSECTIVORA. 

 GENUS SOREX. 



Sorex. Linn. Syst. Nat., 1755, p. 53. 



Sorex ventralis. Merr. N. Am. Faun., No. 10, 1895, p. 75. 

 One specimen from Patzcuaro, State of Michoacan. 



*For retention of this name instead of Chincha, Less., see Dr. J. A. Allen's unanswerable 

 arguments in Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 325, and Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1902, p. 59. 



