PUTORIUS. LUTRA. 433 



CI. Putoiiji.^ tropictdin perrhis Merriam. 



Putorius tropicalis perdiis Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xv, 1902, 

 p. 67. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies. F. C. M. 

 Pub., IV, Pt. II. 1904, p. 531. Zool. Ser. 

 Teapa Weasel. 



Type locality. Teapa, State of Tabasco, Mexico. 

 Geogr. Disir. Known only from the type locality. 



1048. Putorius affinis (Gray). 



Mustela affinis Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th Ser., xiv, 1874, 



P- 375- 

 Putorius affinis Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. 



Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 534. Zool. Ser. 



Allied Weasel. Collaraja in Costa Rica. 



Type locality. Colombia. 



Geogr. Distr. Costa Rica south into South America. 



Subfamily III. Lutrinae. 



Genus 131. Lutra. OttiTs. 



Lutra Briss., Regn. Anim., 2d ed., 1762, p. 201. Type Mustela Intra 

 Linnaeus. 

 Lataxina Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, pp. xxi, 70. 

 Lataxia Gerv., Hist. Nat. Mamm., 11, 1855, p. iiS. 



1049. Lutra canadensis (Schreber). 



Mustela lutra canadensis Schreb., Saugth., 1776, pi. cxxvi B; 



Text, 177S. 

 Mustela (Lutra) canadensis Kerr, Anim. Kingd.. 1792, No. 337. 

 Lutra hudsonica F. Cuv., Suppl. Buflfon, i, 1831. p. 194. 

 Lutra canadensis Aud. & Bachm., N. Am. Quad., in, 1853, p. 97, 

 pi. cxxii (Lataxina mollis Gray). Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 

 F. C. M. Pub., II, 1901, p. 352. Zool. Ser. 

 Canada Otter. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada. Exact locality unknown. 

 Geogr. Distr. Eastern North America, north of North Carolina 

 on the Atlantic coast. 



(I. Lutra canadensis lafa.vina (F. Cuvier). 



Lutra lataxina F. Cuv., Diet. Scien. Nat., xxvii, 1823, p. 242. 

 Lutra canadensis lataxina Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 

 Pub., II, 1901, p. 352. Zool. Ser. 



