406 MEPHITIS. 



Subgenus A. Ohincha. Large-striped Skunks. 



983. Mephitis mephitis (Schreber). 



Viverra tnephitis Schreb., Saugth., iii, 1776, p. 444, tab. 121. 



Mephitis mephitica Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 322, fig. 64. (Part.) Zool. Ser. 

 Canada Skunk. 



Type locality. North America. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern Canada — Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern 

 Ontario, west and north to Oxford House, Keewatin, Canada. 



984. Mephitis hudsonia (Richardson). 



Mephitis americana var. hudsonica Rich., Faun. Bor. Amer., i 



Mamm., 1829, p. 55. 

 Mephitis mephitica hudsonia Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 

 Pub., II, 1901, p. 322. Zool. Ser. 

 Northern Plains Skunk. 



Type locality. Plains of the Saskatchewan. 



Geogr. Distr. Western Canada from Manitoba to British Columbia 

 (east of the Cascades) ; south in the United States to Colorado, Ne- 

 braska, and Minnesota. 



985. Mephitis *olida Boitard. 



Mephitis putida G. Cuv., Tab. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., 1798, pp. 



116, 117. (Indeterminable.) Boitard, Jard. Plantes, Paris, 



Mamm., 1842, p. 147. (Untenable.) 

 Mephitis olida Boitard, Jard. Plantes, Paris, Mamm., 1842, p. 



147- 

 Mephitis fetidissima Boitard, Jard. Plantes, Paris, Mamm., 1842, 



p. 147- 

 Mephitis tnephitica Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 322. (Part.) Zool. Ser. 

 Eastern Skunk. 



Type locality. New Jerse^^ 



Geogr. Distr. New England and Middle Atlantic States, south to 

 Virginia; west to Indiana. 



986. Mephitis elongata (Bangs). 



M'ephitis mephitica elongata Bangs, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 



1895. P- 531 

 Mephitis elongata Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 

 1901, p. 324. Zool. Ser. 



♦As both piitida Cuvier, and piitida Boitard are inadmissible, the first 

 because it is indeterminable and the latter because it was previously used by 

 Cu\'ier, olida Boitard (1. c), becomes the name that should properly be em- 

 ployed. (On this subject, see Allen, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv, 1902, p. 66.) 



