CATALOG OF TYPE SPECIMENS OF MAMMALS 79 



96211. Skin and skull. Young adult male. Camoa, Rio Mayo 

 (about 15 miles above Navojoa), Sonora, Mexico. November 29, 

 1898. Collected by E. A. Goldman. Original number 13263. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



Genus VORMELA Blasius 



*Vormela negans Miller. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 38 : 385, Aug. 19, 1910. 

 155001. Skin only. Adult male. Ordos Desert about 100 miles 

 north of Yuling-fu, altitude 4,000 feet, Sliensi, China. Novem- 

 ber 18, 1908. Collected by Arthur deC. Sowerby. Original 

 number 92. 



Well-made skin in good condtition. 



Family PROCYONIDAE: Raccoons, Coatis, Kinkajous 

 Genus BASSARICYON J. A. Allen 



*Bassaricyon gabbii J. A. Allen. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 28 : 21, Apr. 18, 1876 ; ibid, 29 : 267, 268, 

 pi. 2, 1877 (illustration supposedly representing animal, but actually 

 representing Nastia narica). 



14214. Skull. Adult. Talamanca, Costa Rica. Collected by W. M. 

 Gabb. Original number 44. Cataloged November 19, 1874. 



Skull Grade B. 



According to the catalog there should be a skin bearing the number 

 12237. It has never been found in the Museum collection. In a letter 

 addressed to Dr. M. W. Lyon, dated May 12, 1908, J. A. Allen remarks: 

 "In reference to the type of Bassaricyon gabbii, 1 never saw a skin belong- 

 ing to the type skull. Through some error in cataloging a skin of Nastia 

 narica purported to belong to the skull, and I figured it as such; being 

 at that time unfamiliar with the siiecies of Nasua. Careful search was 

 made for the missing skin after the error was discovered, but I am sure 

 it was never found. My knowledge of the external characters of Bassari- 

 cyon is based on a living specimen of B. alleni which I saw some years ago 

 in the London Zoo." 



Type designated by number on page 20 of the original description. 



i Bassariscyon [sic] gabbi orinomus Goldman. 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll, 60 (2) : 16, Sept. 20, 1912. 

 =Bassaricyon gabbU orinomus Goldman. 



179157. Skin and skull. Adult male. Cana, altitude 1,800 feet, 

 mountains of eastern Panama. March 10, 1912. Collected by 

 E. A. Goldman. Original number 21474. 

 Well-made skin in good condition; skull Grade A. 



