PROCYON. 491 
MayNarp’s Raccoon. 
Type locality. New Providence Island, Bahama Islands. 
Genl. Char. ‘Size small; palatine extension short and narrow; 
upper carnassial molar teeth small and less square than in P. lotor, 
less truncate on inner sides, and more pointed; molar slender, weak; 
infraorbital foramen large.”’ 
Color. Like P. lotor; shoulder patch paler, with more black hairs. 
Measurements. ‘‘Total length, 623; tail vertebrz, 210; hind foot, 
96. Skull: length of nasals, 28.6; length of palate, 58.2; width of 
palate, at middle of carnassial tooth, 17.2; length of palatine, exten- 
sion from a line across alveoli of last upper molars to end of ptery- 
goid process, 23.8; to end of palate, 12.6; least width of palatine 
(Bangs, 
” 
extension, 13.6; length of single half of mandible, 72.2. 
ec.) 
lotor hernandezi (Procyon), Wagl., Isis, 1831, p. 514. Elliot, Syn. 
Ne Am: Mamim:.; 1901, p. 317- 
psora. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, p. 261. 
nivea. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., 1842, p. 580. 
HERNANDEZ’S Raccoon. Tejon solitario, Apache in Mexico. 
Type locality. Southern Mexico. 
Geogr. Distr. Southern Mexico, north into United States, west 
of Mountains to Puget Sound. 
Fic. LXVII. PROCYON L. HERNANDEZI. HERNANDEZ’S RACCOON. 
No. 8724 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. 
