224 SPILOGALE MEPHITIS. 



Spilogale ringens Merriam. Biological Survey collection. 



North AiiuT. Fauna, No. 4, pp. 9-10, fip. 2 (p. 2), Octntn'r 8, 1890. 

 =Spilogale putorius (Linnseus). See Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 2H, p. 15, 

 Noveml)er 24, 1906. 



firrSi- Skin and skull. Adult female. Greensboro, Alabama. Au- 

 gust 2, 1890. Collected by C. S. Hrimley. Original number 50. 



Well-made skin in good condition. Skull with numerous shot perforations; 

 rijjht audital bulla and most of right side of brain-case absent, left amlital bulla 

 injured, right coronoid broken. 



Spilogale tenuis Howell. Biological Survc}^ collection. 



Pror. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, pp. 241-242, December IB, 1902. 

 99305. Skin and skull. Adult male. Arkins, Colorado. Novoml)ci- 

 18, 1899. Collected by R. S. Weldon. Original number L>198x. 

 Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



Spilogale angustifrons tropicalis Howell. liiological Surve}- coll. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, p. 242, December 16, 1902. 

 73528, Skin and skull. Adult male. San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, 

 Mexico, May 10, 1895. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A, 

 Goldman. Original number 7958. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect, except for absence of left 

 mastoid bulla, interorbital region considerably injured by parasites. 



Genus MEPHITIS. 



Mephitis ester Merriam, Biological Survey collection. 



North Ainer. Fauna, No. o, pp. 81-82, pi. 10, figs. 1-4, September 4, 1890. 

 sHIl- Skin and skull. Adult male. San Francisco Mountain, Ari- 

 zona. August 17. 1889. Collected by V. Bailey. Original num- 

 l)er 309. 



Well-made skin in good condition; skull perfect. 



Mephitis frontata Coues. 



P>ull. U. S. Geol. and (!eog. Surv. Terr., 2d ser., No. 1, p. 7, fig. 1, 1875. 

 22;'>2. Post-Pliocene skull. Old adult. Dales Cave, 3 miles from 

 Lansl)urg, Penns3dvania, Collected ))y Secretarj^ S. F. liaird. 

 Catalogued March, 1856, 



Skull in good condition for a subfossil; left zygoma lacking and right some- 

 what broken, two large holes in the brain-case dorsaily and anteriorly, two 

 upper and two lower incisors lacking. 



Chincha occidentalis major Howell. Biological Survey collection. 



North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, pp. 87-88, August 81, 1901. 

 = Mephitis occidentalis major (Howell). See Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XIV, p. 334, November 12, 1901. 



