92 Bangs — A New Raccoon from Nassau Island, Bahamas. 



the raccoon was ever introduced upon the island, and I am un- 

 able to say from what continental stock it was derived. 



The raccoon is abundant upon Nassau, but Mr. Maynard be- 

 lieves that it does not exist upon any of the other islands of the 

 Bahama group. 



The Nassau raccoon may well bear the name of its discoverer, 

 who has done, and is doing, so much work on the Bahamas. 



Procyon maynardi sp. nov. 



Type from Nassau Island, Bahamas. No. 7750, $ young, coll. of E. A. 

 and 0. Bangs. Collected in August, 1897, by Herbert L. Claridge. 



Specific characters. — Size small ; hind foot small ; colors and markings 

 as usual ; shoulder patch not so intensely colored and more overlaid by 

 black hairs than in the Florida form (P. lotor elucus). Skull small ; pal- 

 atine extension very short and narrow ; upper carnassial and molar teeth 

 small and less square than in P. lotor, especially on the inner sides, which 

 are much less truncate and more pointed. 



Cranial characters. — The skull of the type and only specimen, a young 

 male with the second teeth fully developed but unworn, consists of the 

 forward parts of the skull only ; the back from behind the nasals and be- 

 hind the palatine extension is missing. Compared with skulls of P. lotor 

 of the same age, it is smaller ; palate narrower ; palatine extension much 

 shorter and narrower; malar slender and weak; infraorbital foramen 

 large. The best character is the short narrow palatine extension. Prob- 

 ably a more perfect skull would show other characters. 



Dental characters. — The teeth of P. maynardi are small and the upper 

 carnassial and molar teeth quite differently shaped from those of P. lotor. 

 They are shorter and broader — i. e., much less square. The inside edges 

 of these teeth in P. lotor are truncate, in P. maynardi they slope off from 

 front and back into a rounding point, the last molar showing this pecu- 

 liarity most strongly. 



Measurements. — The type, tf young (from dried skin, apparently a little 

 shrunken) : Total length, 623; tail vertebrae, 210; hind foot, 96. Skull: 

 length of nasals, 28.6 ; length of palate, 58.2 ; width of palate at middle 

 of carnassial tooth, 17.2; length of palatine extension from a line across 

 alveoli of last upper molars to end of pterygoid process, 23.8; to end of 

 palate, 12.6; least width of palatine extension, 13.6; length of single half 

 of mandible, 72.2. 



