BASSARISCUS. BASSARICYON. 487 
feet with terminal part and toes whitish; tail very long with alter- 
nating white and black rings and tip black; the black rings much 
broader than the white and not meeting beneath; ears, basal half 
black, remainder white; whiskers very long, jet black. 
Measurements. Total length, 870; tail, 425; hind foot, 80. Skull: 
total length, 89; occipito-nasal length, 80; Hensel, 80; zygomatic 
width, 53; interorbital constriction, 17; postorbital constriction, 18; 
width across postorbital processes, 25.5; greatest width of braincase, 
36; length of nasals, 20.5; mastoid width, 36; length of pterygoid 
fossa, 18; palatal length, 37.5; width of palate between last molars, 12; 
between canines, 10.5; length of upper tooth row from anterior edge 
of canine, alveolar border, 34; length of canine, 11; length of man- 
dible, 55; height of coronoid process, 23; at angle, 9; length of lower 
molars series, alveolar border, 27; from anterior edge of canine, 34. 
482. annulatus (Paradoxurus), Wagn., Schreb. Siugeth., Suppl., 1, 
PaAL, Pp. 353: 
sumichrastt Sauss., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Sér., 1860, p. 7, pl. I. 
@rue, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, p. 608. 
vartabtlis Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Ak. Wiss. Berl., 1874, p. 
GS’. ag 0) Ca Br 
monticola Cordero, La Nature, 111, 1875, p. 269. 
SOUTHERN Raccoon-Frox. Tepachiche del Cojfre de Perote, Caco- 
mistl de Monte in Mexico. Muyus in Guatemala. 
Type locality. Unknown. 
Geogr. Distr. Mexico to Costa Rica. 
Genl. Char. Tail long, bushy, ringed; ears densely covered with 
hair. 
Color, Above mixed black and golden brown, with grayish 
white hairs intermingled; nose and stripe to eye black, mixed with 
gray on nose; rest of head mixed black and yellow; under parts yel- 
lowish white; ears black externally, yellowish internally, edge red- 
dish; tail reddish yellow, with nine to ten black rings, tip black. 
Measurements. Total length, 420; tail, 190. 
92. Bassaricyon. 
33. CIT. p33. y33 
a= te Ee MES — 40. 
Bassaricyon Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1876, p. 20. Type 
Bassaricyon gabbi Allen. 
Skull: Superior outline much curved, the anterior slope being 
_ very marked; braincase wide, large; temporal ridges separated; post- 
orbital processes long, broad at base, pointed, the tips inclined back- 
