380 Mr. 0. T 



loraus on 



in varialilis. Tail with ten black riii^^s^ the terminal two 

 continued into the end tuft, the white rings along its middle 

 portion as broad as the black ones^ better developed than in 

 variahilis. 



Skull as compared with tliat of variabilis smaller, flatter, 

 with a broader interorbital region and more gently expanded 

 zygomata. Notches at back of palate about a millimetre 

 behind the level of the back of m^, while in variahilis they 

 come opposite the middle of that tooth ; a long (3'5 mm.) 

 median spine present, much longer than in the allied form. 

 Bullse low. 



Teeth small tiiroughout. Incisors short and narrow. Car- 

 nassial very small, and practically without any trace of the 

 small supplementary cusps in the middle of the antero-internal 

 and postero-internal borders, the internal lobe being there- 

 fore unusually small and simple. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 457 millim. ; tail 396; hind foot, s. u. 84, 

 c. u. 89 ; ear 45. 



Skull : greatest length S7"3 ; basal length 77 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 56; nasals 166 (in middle line) x6"5; interorbital 

 breadth IS ; breadth of brain-case 35 ; palate length 38. 

 Greatest diameter of p^ I'D, of m^ S-5, of in- 6, of ?Hi 7 6, 

 of Wo 6-7. 



Bab. Boquete, 6000 feet. 



T^'pe. Adult male. B.M. no. 3. 3. 3. 22. Original 

 number 149. Collected 5th August, 1902. One specimen. 



The present is the most southern record of the group. 

 B. S. notinus may be distinguished from B. S. variabilis by 

 its paler colour, smaller skull and teeth, and longer palate. 

 An example from the Volcan de Cartago, Costa Rica, agrees 

 with it in some respects and seems to indicate intergradation 

 with variabilis, on which account I consider it a subspecies 

 only. 



I am not prepared to accept Dr. Jentink's identification of 

 "Wagner's Paradoxurus annulatus with Bassariscus Sumi- 

 chrasti, as the type was so young as to make any satisfactory 

 determination impossible. When visiting the M unich Museum 

 in 1887, I looked for the specimen, but nothing w^as there 

 under Wagner's name, and in the catalogue, in his hand- 

 writing, I found the following note to P. annulatus: '"'jung, 

 = P. musajiga, juv." Moreover, there is a young Musang in 

 the collection which agrees in many respects with the de- 

 scription of annulatus, and might be the type. 



On the other hand, Jentink's name Wagneria, being based 

 on a specimen really assignable to Bassariscus Sumichrasii, 



