26 Nelson and Goldman — New Mammals from Lower California. 



heavier; nasals broader, tapering more al>ruj)tly jxjsteriorly ; frontals less 

 prolonged anteriorly between nasals and maxilla-; eoronoid process nar- 

 rower. 



Measuremerifs of type (ad. d^). — Total length, IXiy; tail vertel)rje, 285; 

 hind foot, 129.' 



Bassariscus astutus palmarius sul)sp. nov. 

 PALM GROVE BASSARISK. 



Type from Comondu, Lower California, INh'xico (altitnde 700 feet). 

 No. 140,102, U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey ('ollection. cJ* 

 adult. Collected November 8, 1905, by E. W. Nelson and E. A. (iold- 

 man. Original number 18,500. 



General characters. — Most like .^axicola ])ut slightly darker; facial mark- 

 ings clearer and more strongly contrasted, usually blackish or dark iron 

 gray and clear white; skull relatively narrower; differs from raptor in 

 smaller size, grayer color, much shorter fur and slenderer tail. 



Color (fresh fall pelage). — Top of head and back grayish dral) sliglitly 

 suffused with buff and darkened by a slight wash of black on tips of long 

 hairs; sides suffused with buff or pinkish buff, clearest along sides of 

 abdomen; legs dull buffy, paling to creamy buff on feet; lii)s, anterior 

 part of cheeks, and narrow area extending upward beliind and over eyes 

 whitish; size of nuizzle, orbital rings and ])osterior cheeks blackish; ears 

 brownish on posterior. base and grayish toward ti]). 



Skull. — Similar to that of raptor but smaller; fourth upper premolar 

 narrower; bulla' more rounded; size about as in saxicola but zygomata 

 less widely spreading; fourth upper premolar narrower; interpterygoid 

 fossa narrower. Compared with insulicola interpterygoid fossa shorter 

 and narrower, ending anteriorly near posterior plane of last molars (end- 

 ing anterior to this in insulicola) ; bid he more inflated. 



MeasuremodH of type. — Total lengtii, 7;!0; tail vertebra', ;!()7; hind 

 foot, 72. 



Bassariscus astutus insulicola sub-^]). nov. 



SAN JOSE ISLAND BASSARLSK. 



Type from San Jose Island, Lower California, M(>xico. No. 79, 0:14, 

 U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey ('oiiection. 9 adult. Col- 

 lected August 7, bS95, by J. E. INfcLellan. Original luunln'r 1401. 



General characters. — Closely related U) saxicola and pahnarius but color 

 more ochraceous than either; the most yellowish of all the subspecies. 



Color (worn sunmier iK'lage). — Upperparts dull drab suffused with dull 

 ochraceous Imffy, becoming darkest on top of neck and shoulders; and 

 shading thence intopaledull butty on underparts; tops of feet pale butty; 

 head grayer than body with poorly contrasted whitish and gray face mark- 

 ings as in saxicola. 



Skull. — Zygomatic arches l)roa(l as in xaxicola, hut hnllii' smalk'r and 

 less inflated; interpterygoid fossa longer and narrower, reaching farther 

 anteriorly ))etween last molars; fonrtli ujjper ]»remolar narrower and less 

 riangular in outline owing to wt'aker develoimient of internal lobe. 



