S14 CONEPATUS. 
skull a gradual curve from occiput to end of premaxille; fore claws 
large and strong; soles naked for half the length of foot. 
A. Oryotogale. 
“Snout very long, overhanging the incisors a full inch (25 mm.), 
with a large naked pad on upper side for rooting in the ground; soles 
of hind feet entirely naked to heel; color black, with a single white 
median dorsal band, beginning on top of head between ears (or 
midway between eves and ears) and reaching posteriorly to tail; 
tail white except at base underneath, which is black; skull relatively 
high; anterior nares large and obliquely truncate, broadly open as 
seen from above; ascending arm of premanxille reduced to a slender 
oblique splint; nasals and manxille ending posteriorly on essentially 
same plane; anterior part of nasals (in profile) essentially in fronto- 
nasal plane (not upturned or pugged); postorbital constriction slight; 
antorbital foramen single throughout.”” (Merr., 1. c.) 
KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES. 
A. Dorsal area white. 
a. Size large, tail long. 
a.’ Black at base of tail beneath very re- PAGE 
SUPIOLEG oss J RAK 85S i ee 8 Se C. sonortensts 514 
b.’ Black at base of tail beneath \% to % 
of its total length. 
a.”’ White on back broad; rump never 
DURE ici we) £y heme tn Oy Cen C. leuconotus 515 
b.”” White on back restricted; rump often 
Pabst xis oh Shas Na dl ty ean ere C. 1. texensts 515 
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ce.’ Tail all white above and below. 
a.” Skull, occipito-nasal length, 678 mm.; 
length of upper premolar and molars, 
26 WOM ate he ents ee ee eta C. mesoleucus 515 
b.”” Skull, occipito-nasal length, 664 mm.; 
length of upper premolar and molars, 
TWO Fc Roc pats Od eee oe eee C. m. mearnst 516 
b. Size small, tail short. 
a” Hind: foot, 94: Wiis vec. <a sae eee C. felipensits 517 
b.’” Hind foot, 62 miss so. . Qa Oe eee 
B. Dorsal stripes two. ccs es ae ee C. tropicalis 517 
490. sonoriensis (Conepatus), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Xv, 
1902, p. 162. 
SONORAN SKUNK. 
Type locality. Camoa, Rio Mayo, State of Sonora, Mexico. 
