LUTRA. 291 



*. Stuffed Captain Paterson, 1838, 



A.S.B. 



No historji-, A.S.B. 



No history, A.S.B. 



A.S.B. 



F. Skip with, 1847, A.S.B. 



Arctonyx taxoides. 



Arctonyx taxoides, Blyih J. A. S. B., xxii, p. 591 (1853) ; Blytk Cat. no. 

 213, p. 71 ; Spearman Burma GazetL, P-5S3; Anderson Anat.Zool. Res,^ 

 p. 196; Blanford Maminals, p. 180. 



Distribution. — Probably the same as the last, Assam, Sylhet, 

 Arakan and possibly China, if Meles leucolsemus, Milne Edw. is 

 indistinguishable from this species as suggested by Blanford. 



a. Stuffed, skull A^sam J. McClelland, 1843, A.S.B. 



[Type of A. taxoides, Blyth], 



b. Stuffed juv. Arakan Sir A. Phayre, 1848, A.S.B. 



Genus MEPHITIS. 



Mephitis, G. Cuvier Tableau Gen. in Legons d' Anat. Cotnp., ist ed , i, 

 (i8oo)\ 



Mephitis mephitica. 



Viverra putorius, Linnaus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 64 (1766). 



Viverra mephitis, Schreber Sdugeth., iii, p. 444, p|. cxxi (1778). 



Viverra mephitica, Shaw Mtis. Leverianum, p. 171 (1792)*. 



Mephitis varians, Gray Ckarlesw. Mag. N.H., i, p. 581 (1837) ; id. Cat. Cam- 



Mamm.^ p. 136. 

 Mephitis mephitica, Baird N. Amer. Mamm., p. 195 {1857)* ; Coues Ftcr^ 



bearing Animals of North America, p. 195. 



Distribution.— Norlh America, from Hudson's Bay and Great 

 Slave Lake to Guatemala. , 



a. Skin nr. Lake Scugog, J. H. Gamier [Ex.]. 



Canada. 



b. Skelet. No history. 



c. Skull Upton, Maine, W. Theobald. 



U. S. A., 29-9-68, 



d. Ale, ? W, Rutledge. 



Genus LUTRA. 



Lutra, Erxleben Syst. Regn. Anim., p. 445 (1777). 

 Aonyx, Lesson Man. Matnm., p. 157 (1827). ^Vp^< Lutra capensis. 

 Lataxina, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 70 (1843). Type, Lutra canadensis. 

 Barangia, Gray P. Z. S., p, 123 (1865). Type, L. sumatrana. 



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