102 BULLETIN Id, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



*Mustela vison melampeplus (Elliot). 



1903. Putorius vison melampeplus Elliott, Field Columb. 



Mus., publ. 74, zool. ser. 3, p. 170. April, 1903. 

 Type Locality, — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



*Mustela vison nesolestes (Heller). 



1909. Lutreola vison nesolestes Heller, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 



vol. 5, p. 259. February 18, 1909. 

 Type Locality. — Windfall Harbor, Admiralty Island, Alaska. 



*Mustela vison vulgivaga (Bangs). 



1895. Putorius (Lutreola) vulgivagus Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. 



Nat. Hist., vol. 26, p. 539. July 31, 1895. 

 Type Locality. — Burbridge, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 



Subgenus Putorius Cuvier.^ 



1817. Putorius Cuvier, Regno Animal, vol. 1, p. 147. Type, 



Mustela putorius Linn^us. 



*Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman). 



1851. Putorius nigripes Audubon and Bachman, Quadr. N. 



Amer.,vol. 2, p. 297. 

 1885. Putorius nigripes, True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 609. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Laramie, Laramie County, Wyoming. 

 (See Hayden, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, n. s., vol. 12, p. 138, 

 1862.) 



Subfamily Melin^e. 



Genus TAYRA Oken. 



1816. Tayra Oken, Lehrb. der Naturgesch. pt. 3, vol. 2, p. 1001. 

 Type, Mustela barhara Linnaeus. 



For use of this name in place of Galera Gray, see Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 377, October 11, 1902. 



*Tayra barbara biologiae (Thomas). 



1900. Galictis harhara hiologise Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 146. January, 1900. 

 Type Locality. — Calovevora, Veragua, Panama. 



*Tayra barbara inserta Allen. 



1908. Tayra harhara inserta Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 24, p. 662. October 13, 1908. 

 Type Locality. — Uluce, Matagalpa, Nicaragua. 



1 Revised by Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 11, pp. 7-9, June 30, 1896. 



