138 SPILOGALE. TAYRA. 



spot on thigh not continuous with white spot on flank. Ex type in 

 United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 380; tail vertebrae, 123; hind foot, 

 45. Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 49.5; zygomatic width, 33.7; 

 intertemporal width, 14.5; palatal length, 17.7; length of upper 

 molar series, 12.6; length of mandible, 32.9; length of lower molar 

 series, 16.3. Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Spilogale microdon Howell. 



Spilogale microdon Howell, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 26, 1906, p. 34. 



Type locality. Comondu, Lower California. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from type-locality. 



Genl. Char. Smaller than S. phenax; tail longer, hind foot shorter; 

 teeth very small; mastoids greatly inflated. 



Color. Similar to S. phenax, but dorsal stripes wider than median 

 pair; frontal patch large; terminal third of tail white. Ex type in 

 United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 410; tail vertebras, 158; hind foot, 

 45. Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 53; intertemporal width, 33.7; 

 zygomatic width, 35.4; palatal length, 16.8; length of upper molar 

 series, 14; length of mandible, 15.3; length of lower molar series, 18.4. 

 Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Subfamily Mustelinae. 

 Genus Tayra. 



Tayra barbara inserta Allen. 



Tayra barbara inserta Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIV, 

 1908, p. 662. 



Type locality. Uluce, Matagalpa, Nicaragua. 



Color. Head and neck brownish black; body above and beneath, 

 limbs and tail black ; no white present. Ex type in American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Measurements. Slightly smaller than T. b. biologies from Panama. 

 Skull: Total length, 115.6; occipito-nasal length, 107.8; Hensel, 104; 

 zygomatic width, 66.2; intertemporal width, 24; length of nasals, 

 73.4; length of upper molar series, 23.8; length of mandible, 18.8; 

 length of lower molar series, 27.1. Ex type in American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



