200 U. 8. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEVS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



MEPHITIS (THIOSMUS) LEUCONOTA. 



Mephitis leuconota, LICHTKNSTEIN, Darstellung Saugt. 1827-34; tab. xliv, f. 1. 

 IB. Abh. K. Akad. Berl. for 1836, (1838,) 271. 



Sp. CH. A median stripe, acuminated at the vertex, widening in the middle of the back, contracted behind and continued 

 over the upper surface of the tail, which is nearly but not entirely white. Length to root of tail, 24 inches; of tail, 12 inches; 

 width of stripe in the middle of the back, 3 inches. 



From the river Alvarado, Mexico. Specimen in Berlin museum. 



MEPHITIS MACROURA. 



Mephitis macroura, LICHT. Darst. Saugt. 1827 1834; tab. xlvi. 



IB. Abh. Ak. Wiss. Berl. for 1836, 1838, 277. 



WAGNER, Suppl. Schreb. II, 1841, 1%. 



(Not of ACD. & BACH.) 

 Mephitis mexicana, J. E. GRAY, Charlesworth's Mag. I, 1837, 581. 



Sp. CH. Tail vertebrae nearly as long as the body. A broad nuchal patch, truncate anteriorly, and continued behind into a 

 simple, broad, undivided dorsal and caudal stripe. A separate longitudinal stripe on the middle of each side. Length of body, 

 14 inches; of tail vertebrae, 13 inches; its terminal hairs, 5 inches. 



Found in the temperate portions of Mexico. Specimens in Berlin Museum. 



MEPHITIS VITTATA. 



.Mephitis vittata, LICHTENSTEIN, Darst. Saugt. 1827, 34; tab. xlvii. 

 IB. Abh. Ak. Wiss. Berl. for 1836, (1838,) 278. 

 WAGNER, Suppl. Schreb. II, 1841. 



Sp. CH. A narrow line from nose to vertex ; one or two streaks on each side, along the occiput ; a solitary stripe on each 

 side from the parotid region to the base of the tail. Body, 13 inches; tail vertebrae, 11 inches; terminal hairs, 4 inches. 



Found in Oaxaca, Mexico. 



The pol-cat of Catesby, (Car. II, 1*731, 62; pi. Ixii,) black, with five narrow white lines, has 

 not been identified. 



The Mephitis myotis, of Fischer, (Syn. 1829, 164,) is based on a description in Dupratz' 

 Louisiana, II, 97, fig. ? Body black in the male, black margined with white in the female ; 

 ears and feet mouse-like. Size that of a young cat. The animal cannot be identified. 



