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length, 122.9; condylobasal length, 116.9; zygomatic breadth, 86; intororbital 

 breadth, 25.2; least width of palatal shelf, 16.8; maxillary tooth row (alveoli), 

 45.7; upper carnassial, crown length, 9.2, crown width, 10.3. Two adult males 

 from Acambaro, Michoacan, and Jalpan, Queretaro: Greatest length, 128.3, 

 123.7; condylobasal length, 124.8, 116; zygomatic breadth, 86.2, 83.1; interorbital 

 breadth, 24.2, 23.9; least width of palatal shelf, 16.4, 16.4; maxillary tooth row, 

 45.2, 44.2; upper carnassial, crown length, 9.3, 9.1, crown width, 10, 9.3. Two 

 adult females from Tetela del Volcan, Morelos, and El Chico, Hidalgo: Greatest 

 length, 118.1, 114; condylobasal length, 114.8, 109.3; zygomatic breadth, 79.3, 

 76.8; interorbital breadth, 24.7, 22.1; least width of palatal shelf, 16.4, 15.8; max- 

 illary tooth row. 44.2, 42.3; upper carnassial, crown length, 9.4, 8.2, crov/n width, 

 10, 9.4. 



Be marks. — T\w range of P. /. hernandezii in southern Mexico is 

 ti-anscontinental, and while mainly at 4,000 to 6,000 feet on the table- 

 land of the interior it extends from sea level along the tropical coasts 

 to 8,000 feet altitude on the slopes of the mountains bordering the 

 Valley of Mexico. It intergrades on the north in eastern Mexico 

 with P. I. fusclpes and in western Mexico with P. I. mexicanus. 

 Toward the southeast its range meets that of P. I. shufeldti. 



Specimens examined. — Total number, 50, as follows: 



Colima: Armeria, 1; Colima, 5 (3 skulls without skins); Manzanillo, 8 (3 skulls 



without skins). 

 Guerrero: Papayo, 2; Tlapa, 1. 

 Hidalgo: El Chico, 1. 

 Jalisco: Arroyo de Plantinar, 1;^^ Atemajac, 3 (1 skull without skin); Barranca 



Ibarra (Canyon de Oblatos), Rio Grande de Santiago, 1; Garabatos, 1;^^ Las 



Canoas, 2;^^ Zacoalco, 1; Zapotlan, 2 (1 skull without skin). 

 Mexico: Ajusco, Distrito Federal, 1 (skull only); Tlalpam, Distrito Federal, 1. 

 Michoacan: Acambaro, 2 (skulls only); Patzcuaro, 2 (1 skull without skin); 



Querendaro, 3 (2 skulls without skins). 

 Morelos: Tetela del Volcan, 1. 

 Nayarit: San Bias, 1. 

 Oaxaca: Cuicatlan, 1. 



Queretaro: Jalpan, 2 (1 skull without skin). 

 San Luis Potosi: Hacienda la Parada, 1; San Luis Potosi, 1. 

 Veracruz: Jico, 3; Mirador, 2 (1 skin without skull). 



PROCYON LOTOR SHUFELDTI Nelson and Goldman 

 Campeche Raccoon 



Procyon lotor shufeldti Nelson and Goldman, Biol. Soc. Washington Proc. 44: 17, 

 Feb. 21, 1931. 



Type locality. — La Tuxpena, Champoton, Campeche, Mexico. 



Type. — No. 177546, male adult, skin and skull, United States 

 National Museum (Biological Surveys collection) ; collected by Percy 

 W. Shufeldt, April 20, 1911. 



Distribution. — From the Isthmus of Tehuantepec east through 

 Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, Quintano Roo, British 



35 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



