486 BASSARISCUS. 
Genl. Char. Teeth small; carnassial very small, internal lobe 
simple, supplementary cusps in middle of internal borders absent. 
Color. General color smoke gray, lined with black; muzzle and 
orbital ring brown; dark line between eyes on forehead; cheeks and 
patch between eyes white; under parts dull buffy white, mixed with 
gray; upper surface of feet grizzled fawn gray, nearly black on the 
digits; tail with ten black rings alternating with white ones; tip black; 
ears brown on basal halves, apical halves paler, becoming white on 
the edges. 
Measurements. Total length, 853; tail, 396; hind foot and claws, 
89; ear, 45. Skull: greatest length, 87.3; basal length, 77; zygomatic 
breadth, 56; nasals, 16.6 6.5; interorbital constriction, 18; breadth 
of braincase, 35; palate length, 38; greatest diameter of fourth upper 
premolar, 7.5; of first upper molar, 8.5; of second upper premolar, 6; 
of first lower molar, 7.6; of second lower molar, 6.7. 
481. albipes (Bassariscus), Elliot, Pub. Field Columb. Mus., 111, 
1903, p. 258. Zodlogy. 
WHITE-FOOTED RACCOON-FOX. 
Type locality. Near Vera Cruz, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Size large, color dark, feet white. Skull long, nar- 
row, nasals pointed posteriorly (rounded in B. astutus and B. a. 
raptor), and considerably depressed in the middle, causing the out- 
line to be concave, as the posterior portion ascends to the frontals; 
the braincase is rather narrow for its length, and does not widen 
posteriorly to an equal extent as that of B. astutus; the pterygoid 
fossa is long and rather broad, and the processes of the pterygoids are 
thickened and heavy, very different from the slender processes of the 
species compared; infraorbital foramina very large and triangular in 
shape; palate anteriorly much broader for its length than either of 
the other forms; postorbital processes short. 
Color. Upper parts very dark gray, the hairs being yellowish at 
base and tipped with black, the dark color predominating to such an 
extent on the dorsal region that this part seems in certain lights all 
black; sides of neck and body slightly paler; top of head nearly black 
like the back, mixed slightly with white and buff hairs; above the 
eye for the posterior three-fourths is a buff spot connecting pos- 
teriorly with a buff stripe that runs under the eye to the nose; black 
band in front of eye; end of nose blackish brown; muzzle black; upper 
lip buff; chin and throat buff; rest of under parts yellowish white; 
shoulders like back; upper parts of fore and hind legs brownish gray; 
fore feet white or very pale yellowish white, this hue extending up 
the outside to beyond wrist; under side of legs yellowish white; hind 
