404 POTOS. TAXIDEA. 



Genus 122. *Potos. Kiiikajoiis. 



Potos Cuv. & Geoff., Meth. Mamm., in Mag. Encyl., 11, 1795, p. 187. 

 Type Viverra candivok'ula Schreber. 

 Cercolepies Illig., Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Av., 1811, p. 127. 



Potos flai'iis azteeus Thomas. 



Potos flavtis azteeus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Ser., ix, 

 1902, pp. 266, 268, desc. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. 

 Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. it, 1904, p. 500, figs. {Potos 

 flaziis) 92 and lxix. Zool. Ser. 

 Aztec Kinkajou. Martica in Mexico; Micoleon in Guatemala. 

 Type locality. Atoyca, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Distr. Central America, south to Guatemala. 



Potos flai'us chiriquensis Allen. 



Potos flavus chiriqueiisis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1904, p. 72. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. Ti, 1904, p. 501. Zool. Ser. 

 Chiriqui Kinkajou. 



Type locality. Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. 

 Geogr. Distr. Panama. Range unknown. 



Family VI. llastelidse. Badgers, Weasels, Otters, etc. 



Subfamily I. Melinse. 



Genus 123, Taxidea. Badgers. 



Taxidea Storr, Prodr. Meth. Mamm., 1780, p. 34. Type Ursiis taxus 

 Schreber. 



982. Taxidea taxus (Schreber). 



Ursiis taxus Schreb., Saugth., in, 1778, p. 520. 



Meles taxus var. B. americanus Bodd., Elench. Anim., i, 1785, 



p. 136. 

 Ursus labradoria Gmel., Syst. Nat., i, 1788, p. 102. 

 Meles I'effersoni Harl., Faun. Am., 1825, p. 309. 

 • Taxidea americana Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 320, fig. 63. Zool. Ser. 



*Potos flat'us megalotus (Martin) , which Thomas has restricted to Colombia 

 and Costa Rica, has been reconsidered by Allen, who assigns the name mega- 

 lotus to the form found in eastern Colombia. 



