758 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 205 



1899. Mephitis foetulenta Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 32, Zool. Ser., vol. 

 1, No. 13 (March), p. 269, May 17, 1899. (Lagune, near Port Angeles, 

 Clallam County, Wash.) 

 1936. Mephitis mephitis spissigrada Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 



473, p. 67, Nov. 20, 1936. 

 Type Locality. — Sumas, British Columbia, Canada. Range. — Pacific coast 

 region from northwestern Oregon, and Washington, to southwestern British 

 Columbia south of Fraser River (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 73, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Subgenus LEUCOMITRA 1 A. H. Howell 



1901. Leucomitra A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 20, p. 39, Aug. 31, 

 1901. (Type, Mephitis macroura Lichtenstein.) 



Mephitis macroura macroura Lichtenstein* 



1832. Mephitis macroura Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter 



Saugethiere, . . . , pi. 46. 

 1884. Mephitis macrurus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , 



p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 Type Locality. — Mountains northwest of city of Mexico. Range. — Highlands 

 of central and southern Mexico; south to Honduras (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist, vol. 79, p. 180, May 29, 1942) . 



Mephitis macroura eximius Hall and Dalquest 



1950. Mephitis macroura eximius Hall and Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 1, No. 24, p. 579, Jan. 20, 1950. 



Type Locality. — Fifteen kilometers west of Piedras Negras, Veracruz, Mexico. 

 Altitude, 300 feet. Range. — Vicinity of type locality on arid coastal plain of 

 lowlands of central Veracruz, Mexico. 



Mephitis macroura milleri Mearnsf* 



1897. Mephitis milleri Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals of the 



genera Mephitis, Dorcelaphus, and Dicotyles, from the Mexican border of the 



United States, p. 1, Feb. 11, 1897. (Preprint of Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 20, p. 467, Dec. 24, 1897.) 



1901. Mephitis macroura milleri J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 



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

 Type Locality. — Fort Lowell, near Tucson, Pima County, Ariz. Range. — 

 Southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 53 (December 1931), p. 336, Mar. 1, 1932), southwestern Texas (Blair, 

 Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 46, p. 24, June 28, 1940) , Sonora except 

 perhaps extreme northwestern desert region (Burt, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. 

 Misc. Publ. 39, p. 30, Feb. 15, 1938), and parts of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, 

 and Coahuila, Mexico. 



Mephitis macroura vittata Lichtenstein* 



1832. Mephitis vittata Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter 

 Saugethiere, . . . , pi. 47. 



1 Synopsis published by Hall and Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, No. 

 24, pp. 575-580, Jan. 20, 1950. 



