136 BULLETIN 128, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



t*Spilogale lucasana Merriam. 



1890. Spilogale hicasana Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 4, 



p. 11. Octobers, 1890. 

 Type Locality. — Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, Mexico. 

 Range. — Cape region of Lower California. 



Genus MEPHITIS Geoffrey and Cuvier/' 



1795. Mephitis Geoffroy and Cuvier, Mag. Encyclop., Ire 

 annee, vol. 2, p. 187. Type, Viverra mephitis Schreber. 



Subgenus MEPHITIS Geoffroy and Cuvier. 



*Mephitis mephitis (Schreber). 



1776. Viverra mephitis Schreber, Saugthiere, pi. 121. 



1902. Mephitis mephitis Allen and others, Science, n. s., vol. 



16, p. 115. July 18, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern Canada. 



Range. — Eastern Canada — Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern 

 Ontario; west and north at least to Oxford House, Keewatin. 



*Mephitis hudsonica (Richardson). 



1829. Mephitis americana var. hudsonica Richardson, Fauna 



Boreali- Americana, vol. 1, p. 55. 

 1895. Mephitis hudsonica Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 26, p. 536. July 31, 1895. 

 Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan, Canada. 

 Range. — Western Canada from Manitoba to British Columbia 



(east of the Cascades) ; south in the United States to Colorado 



and Nebraska. 



*Mephitis minnesotae Brass. 



1911. Mephitis minnesotse Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Peize, 



p. 532. April, 1911. 

 Type Locality. — Forested region of Minnesota. 



*Mephitis nigra (Peale and Beauvois). 



1796. Viverra nigra Peale and Beauvois, Catal. Peale's Mus., 

 Philadelphia, p. 37. 



1885. Mephitis mephitica True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 609. 1885. (Part.) 

 1911. Mephitis dentata Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 533. 



(From the Alleghenies to Connecticut.) 



« Revised, under the name Chincha, bj^ Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, Aug. 31, 1901. For 

 discussion of the nomenclature of this genus see Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, p. 14, Aug. 31, 1901; 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, pp. 1-9, Feb. 18, 1902; North Amer. Fauna, No. 26, pp. 10-11, Nov. 

 24, 1906; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 14, pp. 325-334; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, 

 pp. 59-66, Mar. 22, 1902; Allen and others, Science, n. s., vol. 16, pp. 114-115, July IS, 1902. 



