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Goldmän's view so far thafc he thinks that the specimens 

 of Bassaricyon described from Central America, Panama and 

 Western Colombia may be considered as subspecies of gahhii. 



Nasua gualeae n. sp. (vel subsp.) 



1 c? ju v., 3/5 1914, Gualea; 1 ^ ad., ^7/^ 1916, road to 

 Gualea, 6,000 feet; 1 ^ ad. Ve 1918', Hambo, near Gualea, 

 about 5,000 feet; 1 ^ -/s 1918, near Gualea, 5,000 feet; I $, 

 ^78 1918, ibidem. 



Tliese specimens are remarkably alike in colour to be 

 Nasuas, although they have been collected at different times 

 and are of different age and sexe. 



Head grey, grizzled black and whitish. A sooty black 

 area surrounds the anterior half of the eyes and extends 

 forwards half way to the snout, above this a paler grey 

 band. Ears black with white upper margin. The nape and 

 upper neck is coarsely grizzled grey and black, but the black 

 tips of the hairs increase soon in length, so that the back 

 appears almost black and the påle greyish or buffish grey 

 basal parts of the hair are only little visible. (In the female 

 the basal parts of the hairs are more buff and also more 

 visible on the anterior back, but on the posterior half they 

 are covered by the long black tips.) Along the middle of 

 the back the black is most intense without forming a regular 

 band. On the flanks the general colour becomes more 

 brownish, because there are dull rufous to buff rings included 

 in the black tips of the hairs. The axilla in front of the 

 foreleg is bright rufous by means of long tips of this colour 

 to the hairs (in one male and the female only buff). This 

 rufous extends more or less on the upper arm and on the 

 upper half of the lower arm or a little more; below this the 

 arms and feet are black. In the female the whole före leg is 

 nearly black. The hind legs are black. The remarkably 

 short tail is black with 5 (or 6) påle rings more or less visible 

 on the lower side. Chin white, throat creamy buff becoming 

 more brightly buff laterally on the fringe below the ears and 

 towards the axilla. Lower side of body dark brown to black 

 with buffish tips to some hairs. 



Hind foot (s. u.) about 75 — 80 mm in males, about 70 

 mm in female (measured on the dry skins), Tail about 28 cm. 



