522 SPILOGALE. 
San PEDRO MARTIR SPOTTED SKUNK. 
Type locality. Vallecitos, San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower 
California, Mexico; 9,000 feet elevation. 
Genl. Char. Similar to S. arizoneé in markings, but the white 
stripes from occiput and cheek are narrower and shorter; broken 
‘stripe from fore leg across lower back broader; tail and hind foot 
shorter. Skull shorter and narrower with narrower rostrum, but 
braincase wider above auditory meatus. 
Color. Entire body, legs, and feet jet black with white spots and 
stripes, as in S. arizone, differing only as mentioned above; tail jet 
black for basal half, white for the remainder; chin white; white spot 
on forehead large and broad. 
Measurements. Total length, 395; tail vertebra, 143; hind foot, 
44; ear, 25. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 49; Hensel, 45.5; zygomatic 
width, 33; interorbital constriction, 12; width of rostrum, 11; length 
of nasals, 8; breadth of braincase over auditory meatus, 27; mastoid 
‘breadth, 30; palatal length, 19; postpalatal length, 26; length of 
mandible, angle to alveolus of incisor, 30; height at condyle, 6; at 
coronoid process, I5. 
Fic. LXXII]. SPILOGALE INTERRUPTA. WHITE-SPOTTED SKUNK. 
No. 6878 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. = 
