CARNIVORA: MUSTELIDAE 759 



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

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



Type Locality. — San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico. Range. — Known only 

 from type locality; probably ranges over coast region of Oaxaca and Chiapas. 



Genus CONEPATUS Gray 



1837. Conepatus Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., new ser. vol. 1, p. 581. November 

 1837. (Type, Conepatus humboldtii Gray.) 



Subgenus ORYCTOGALE Merriam 



1902. Oryctogale Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, p. 161, Aug. 

 6, 1902. (Type, Conepatus leuconotus (Lichtenstein) .) 



Conepatus leuconotus leuconotus (Lichtenstein) * 



1832. Mephitis leuconata Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekannter 



Saugethiere, . . . , pi. 44, fig. 1. 

 1902. Conepatus leuconotus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, 



p. 161, Aug. 6, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Rio Alvarado, Veracruz, Mexico. Range. — Uncertain, pos- 

 sibly southern Tamaulipas south through Veracruz and eastern Hidalgo (Metla- 

 toyuca) to about lat. 19° N. 



Conepatus leuconotus texensis Merriamf * 



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

 p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 



1902. Conepatus leuconotus texensis Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 15, p. 162, Aug. 6, 1902. 



Type Locality. — Brownsville, Cameron County, Tex. Range. — Extreme south- 

 ern Texas, from Laredo to Brownsville on lower Rio Grande, and eastward along 

 coast to Rockport, Aransas County (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 25, p. 205, 

 Oct. 24, 1905) ; southward at least to central Tamaulipas (Dice, Univ. Michigan 

 Studies, Sci. Ser., vol. 12, p. 250, 1937) and El Salto, San Luis Potosi, Mexico 

 (Dalquest, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 23, p. 13, July 10, 

 1950). 



Conepatus mesoleucus mesoleucus (Lichtenstein) * 



1832. Mephitis mesoleuca Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder wenig bekann- 

 ter Saugethiere, . . . , pi. 44, fig. 2. 



1902. [Conepatus] mesoleucus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, 

 p. 163, Aug. 6, 1902. 



Type Locality. — Near Chico, Hidalgo, Mexico. Range. — Hidalgo (El Chico), 

 Puebla (Rio Otlati, 15 kilometers northwest of San Martin ; Davis, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 25, No. 4, p. 382, Dec. 12, 1944), Mexico (Salazar), and Michoacan (Patz- 

 cuaro) southward through Guerrero (Acapulco and Ometepec) and Oaxaca to 

 Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Huilotepec and Santo Domingo). 



Conepatus mesoleucus filipensis Merriamf* 



1902. Conepatus filipensis Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, p. 



163, Aug. 6, 1902. 

 1952, Conepatus mesoleucus filipensis Hall and Kelson, Univ. Kansas Publ. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, No. 25, p. 335, Dec. 5, 1952, 



