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ican, Central American and South American species, leaving Conepatiis 

 restricted apparently to the Patagonian and allied species of southern South 

 America. The geographical limits of these several groups, however, have 

 not been worked out, and the material now available does not permit me 

 to throw much light on the subject. As shown by Thomas (/. c.) in oppo- 

 sition to a suggestion by Howell (/. c), the name TJiiosomus is not avail- 

 able for use in this connection, being antedated by both Conepatits and 

 Marpiitins of Gray, in whatever sense Thiosmits may be construed. 



CoNEPATUS HUMBOLDTi Gray. 



(Plate XXII, Skulls.) 



Conepatus Juunboldti Qx2.y , Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., I, Nov., 1837, 



581. Straits of Magellan. — Milne-Edwards, Miss, du Cap Horn, 



VI, Zool., 1890,6-14, pi. i (animal), pi. vii (skull). — Merriam, Proc. 



Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, 165, Aug. 6, 1902 (in text). — Prichard, 



Through Heart of Patagonia, 1902, 260. 

 Conepatus nasittiis, var. 2. hiiniboldti Gray, P. Z. S., 1865, 146. " Hab. 



Magellan Straits." 

 Conepatits nasntits, var. 3. c/nlensts, Gray, P. Z. S., 1865, 146, in part; not 



Marpiitins cJiilensis Gray, 1837. 

 Mephitis patagonica Lichtenstein, Abhl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1836(1838), 



275, VzX2i<gom2i= Conepatus humboldti Gray. — Cunningham, Nat. 



Hist. Strait Magellan, 1871, 109. Sandy Point, Patagonia. 

 Conepatus castaneus Gervais & D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., Mamm., 



1850, 19, pi. xii. 

 Adult Female (winter). — General color above reddish brown with two 

 longitudinal stripes of white as follows: Two bands of white, united on 

 the head into a transverse band in front of the ears, pass, one on either 

 side, from the head to the base of the tail ; between these a median band 

 of chestnut, extending from the crown onto the basal fifth of the tail ; this 

 band is dark chestnut on the nape and shoulders, then light yellowish 

 chestnut to the hips, and again darker on the lower back, rump, and base 

 of tail ; sides of the body dark chestnut brown ; ventral surface still 

 darker, blackish brown, darkening to black on the anal region and base 

 of the tail ; fore and hind limbs blackish brown ; ears small, heavily 

 clothed, blackish brown like the head ; tail rather short but very broad, 

 basally chestnut above and blackish below, then grizzled white and black- 



