SYNONYMY OF MEPHITIS MEPHITICA. 195 



ducible to one, possibly divisible into two or three geograph- 

 ical races. There is a second Mexican species, apparently 

 valid, which will be brought into the present connection to 

 complete a review of the genus. A fossil species is also de- 

 scribed in the foregoing pages. Mephitis proper and Spilogalc 

 are both confined, as far as known, to North and Middle 

 America, Conepatus being the only South American type of 

 MepMtlnce^ but also extending through Middle America to the 

 ]\[exican border of the United States. 



The CoBiiiiion 8kiink. 



JUcphitis mepliitica. 



Plates X, XI. 

 {a. mephitiea.) 



Viverra mephitiea, Shaio, Mus. Lever. 1792, 173, no. 4, pi. 6; Gen. Zool. i. 1800, 390, pi. 94, mid- 

 dle fio:. 



Mephitis mephitiea, Bd. M. N". A. 1857, 195.— Coop, rf SucM. N. H. W. T. 1860, M.—Hayd. 

 Trans. Am. Pbilos. Soc. xii. 1862, I'i'i.— Samuels, Ninth Ann. Eep. Mass. Agric. for 1861, 

 1862,161.— Gerr.Cat. Bones Br. Mus. 1862, 97.— AZien.Bull. M.C. Z. i. 1869, 178; ii, 1871, 169 

 (critical) .—Allen, Pr.Bost. Soc. xiii. 1869, 1B2.— Gilpin, Proc. and Tr. N. Scotia Inst. ii. 1870, 

 m.—Stev. U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr, for 1870, 1871, A&\.— Parker, Am. Nat. t. 1871, 246 (anat. 

 of anal glands, &c.).— AJien, Bull. Ess. Inst. vi. 1874, 46, 54, 59, 63.— AZZen, Proc. Bost. Soc, 

 xvii. 1874, p. 38.— Ames, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1874, 69.— Cowes, Bull.U. S. Geol. and 

 Geogr. Surv. Terr. 2d ser. no. 1, 1875, 8 (skull and teeth). — Ooues c6 Yarroio, Zool. Expl. 

 W. 100 Merid. v. 1875, Qi.— Allen, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. vol. ii. no. 4, 1876, 332 (skull). 



Mephitis Chiuga, Tied. Zool. i. 1808, 362 (partly).— iic/i«. Darstell. Saug. 1827-34, pi. 45, f. 1 ; 

 Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berl. for 1836, 1838, 280.— iLfaajim. Reise N. A. i. 1839, 250; Arch. f. 

 Naturg. 1861,— ; Verz. N. A. Saug. 1802, 42.— IFagm. Suppl. Schreb. ii. 1841, l^S.—Schinz, 

 Syn. i. 1844, 323, no. IZ.—Aud. <£ Bach. Q. N. A. i. 1849, 317, pi. AH.—Giebel, Siiug. 1855, 766.— 

 Fitzinger, Naturg. Siiug, i. 1861, 315, f. 63. 



Mephitis americana »an K, £>esm. Mamm. i. 1820, 186 {'^ Mustela'\ lapsu. Includes all the 

 American Skunks, vars. A — R) ; Nouv, Diet. xxi. 515 (var. 7). — J. Sab. App. Frankl. 

 Journ. 1823, GdS.—Rarl. Fn. Am. 1825, 10.— Griff. An, Kingd, v. 1827, 127, no. 358 (partly). 

 Less. Man. 1827, 151, no. 406.— Godm. Am. Nat. Hist. i. 1831, 213, pl.-f. I.— Doughty' s Cab. 

 N. H. ii, 1832, 193, pi, 17, —Rich. Zool, Beechey's Voy,1839, 4.— Emmons, Rep. Quad. Mass. 

 1840, 49.— De ^ay, N. Y. Zool. i. 1842, 29, pi. 12, f. l.— Wymaii, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1844, 110 

 (anat.).— TFarrm, Pr.Bost. Soc. iii. 1849, 115 (ana,t.). —Thomps. N. H. Vermont, 1853,33.— 

 Woodh. Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 44.— Kenn. Tr. Illinois Agric. Soc. for 1853-4, 1855, 518.— Bees- 

 ley, Geol. Cape May, 1857, 131.— Billings, Canad. Nat. and Geol. i. 1857, 360.— HaK, 

 Canad. Nat. and Geol. vi. 1861, 296. 



Mephitis americana vm: hudsonica, Rich. F, B.-A. i. 1829, 55, no, 19. 



Chincha americana, Less. Nouv, Tabl, R. A. 1842, 67. 



Mephitis chinche, Fisch. Syn. 1829, 160 (includes other species ; quotes Tiedemann primarily). 



Mephitis varians var. chinga, Gray, P, Z, S, 1865, 148 ; Cat. Cam. Br. Mus. 1869, — , 



Chinche, Shaio, I. c— Geoff, d- Ouv. " Hist. Mamm. ii. 1819, — , pi. —(Louisiana)," 



Mephitic Weesel, Shato, Mus, Lever, 



Ouinesque, Sag.-TMod. Hist, Canad, 1636, 748 (ed. of 1866, iii. 680). 



Enfan du Diable, Oharlev. N, France, v, 1744, 196, 



Polecat, Ealm, Voy. , 452. 



8kunl{, Forst. Phil. Trans. Ixii. 1772, 374.— Penn. Arct. Zool. i. 1784, 85, no. 33.— Hearne, Journ. 

 , 377. 



Chinga, Schinz, I. c 



