712 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



1912. Thalarctos labradorensis Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull 79, p. 77, Dec. 31, 

 1912. 



Type Locality. — Okkak, Labrador, Canada. Range. — Following Labrador 

 current from southern extremity of Greenland, along Labrador coast to New- 

 foundland (Knottnerus-Meyer, loc. cit.). 



Family Procyonidae 84 



Subfamily procyoninae 



Genus BASSARISCUS * Coues (cacomistles) 

 1887. Bassariscus Coues, Science, vol. 9, p. 516, May 27, 1887. (Type, 

 Bassaris astuta Lichtenstein. ) 



Bassariscus astutus astutus (Lichtenstein) * 



1830. B[assaris] astuta Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



1827, p. 119, 1830. 

 1884. Bassaris astuta True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), p. 



608, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1887. Bassariscus astutus Coues, Science, vol. 9, p. 516, May 27, 1887. 

 1904. Bassariscus albipes Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 87, Zool. Ser., vol. 3, 

 No. 14 (December 1903), p. 258, Jan. 7, 1904. (Xico, near Jalapa, Vera- 

 cruz,, Mexico. See Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 

 22, p. 486, Oct. 19, 1932.) 

 Type Locality. — Near city of Mexico, Mexico (see Nelson and Goldman, Journ. 

 Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 22, p. 486, Oct. 19, 1932). Range.— High plateau 

 of central Mexico. 



Bassariscus astutus bolei Goldman 



1945. Bassariscus astutus bolei Goldman. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 58, 

 p. 105, July 18, 1945. 



Type Locality. — Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. Range. — Known only from 

 the type locality on slope of Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, Mexico. 



Bassariscus astutus consitus Nelson and Goldmanf * 



1932. Bassariscus astutus consitus Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Washington 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 22, p. 497, Oct. 19, 1932. 



Type Locality. — La Salada, 40 miles south of Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico. 

 Range. — Central Michoacan and Jalisco, and northward through the Sierra 

 Nevada to southern Sinaloa; and west-central Chihuahua (Knobloch, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 23, No. 3, p. 297, Aug. 14, 1942), passing farther north into 

 arizonensis. 



Bassariscus astutus flavus Rhoads* 



1894. Bassariscus astutus flavus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 45, 1893, p. 417, Jan. 30, 1894. 



" Genera revised by Hollister, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 49, pp. 143-150, Aug. 13, 1915; 

 and by Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921, pt. 2, pp. 389-422, July 8, 1921. 



85 See Hollister, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 49, pp. 143-144, Aug. 13, 1915. Bassariscinae 

 regarded as a subfamily of the Procyonidae by Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921, pt. 2, 

 p. 421; June 28, 1921. 



