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Type Locality. — San Jose, Mason County, 111. Range. — Prairie region of 

 Illinois, western Indiana, eastern Iowa, northern Missouri, northeastern Kansas; 

 boundaries of range imperfectly known. 



Mephitis mephitis mesomelas Lichtenstein* 



1832. Mephitis mesomelas Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder wenig 



bekannter Saugethiere, . . . , pi. 45, fig. 2. 

 1896. Mephitis mephitica scrutator Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



10, p. 141, Dec. 28, 1896. (Cartville, Acadia Parish, La.) 

 1901. Chincha mesomelas A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 20, p. 29, 



Aug. 31, 1901. 

 1936. Mephitis mephitis mesomelas Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 473, 



p. 66, Nov. 20, 1936. 

 Type Locality. — Louisiana. Range. — West side of Mississippi Valley from 

 southern Louisiana to Missouri and extreme southeastern Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. 

 Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 47, p. 69, September 1944) ; westward along coast of 

 Texas to Matagorda Island; and up Red River Valley as far at least as Wichita 

 Falls. 



Mephitis mephitis varians Gray* 



1837. Mephitis varians Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., new ser., vol. 1, p. 581. 

 1901. Chincha mesomelas varians A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 20, 



p. 31, Aug. 31, 1901. 

 1901. Mephitis mesomelas varians J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 14, p. 334, Nov. 12, 1901. 

 1936. Mephitis mephitis varians Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 473, 



p. 66, Nov. 20, 1936. 

 Type Locality. — Texas. Range. — Southern and western Texas, eastern two- 

 thirds of New Mexico, and adjacent parts of Mexico north into Oklahoma, 

 Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. 



Mephitis mephitis estor Merriamf * 



1890. Mephitis estor Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 3, p. 81, Sept. 11, 



1890. 

 1933. Mephitis mephitis estor Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, 

 No. 2, p. 108, Sept. 26, 1933.— Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 473, 

 p. 66, Nov. 20, 1936. 

 Type Locality. — San Francisco Mountain [Little Spring at north base], 

 Coconino County, Ariz. Altitude, 8,200 feet. Range. — Western third of New 

 Mexico across Arizona to northeastern Baja California and southeastern Cali- 

 fornia (Colorado River Valley) ; northward to southeastern Nevada (Hall, 

 Mammals of Nevada, p. 213, July 1, 1946) ; southern and eastern Utah (Durrant, 

 Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 431, Aug. 10, 1952) ; and southward 

 in Sonora, and in Sierra Madre to southern Chihuahua; limits of range unknown. 



Mephitis mephitis major (A. H. Howell) f * 



1901. Chincha occidentalis major A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 20, 



p. 37, Aug. 31, 1901. 

 1931. Mephitis mephitis major Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 37, 



No. 1, p. 1, Apr. 10, 1931. 



