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MILLER AND REIIN: NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS. Ill 



Subgenus Leucomitra Howell. 



1901. Leucomitra Howell, North Amer. fauna, no. 20, p. 39. 

 August 31, 1901. Type. — Mephitis macroura Lichten- 



STEIN. 



Chincha macroura (Lich ten stein). 

 1901. Chincha macroura Howell, North Amer. fauna, no. 

 20, p. 41. August 31, 1901. 



Chincha macroura milleri (Mearns). 

 1901. Chincha macroura milleri Howell, North Amer. 

 fauna, no. 20, p. 42. August 31, 1901. 



Chincha macroura vittata (Licbtenstein) . 



1832. Mephitis ritt<ttt( Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder 

 wenig bekannter Saugethiere, pi. xlvii, with accompanying 

 text. 



1901. Chinch' i macroura vittata Howell, North Amer. fauna, 

 no. 20, p. 43. August 31, 1901. 



Type locality. — San Mateo del Mar, State of Oaxaca, Mex- 

 ico. 



Genus Spilogale Gray, p. 214. It has been shown by Howell 

 (North Amer. fauna, no. 20, p. 9-10 and 14, August 31, 1901, and 

 Proc. biol. soc. Washington, xv. p. 1-9, February 18, 1902) tbat 

 in accordance with existing rules of nomenclature this name must 

 give place to : 



Genus MEPHITIS Cuvier. 



1800. Mephitis Cuvier, Lecons d'anat. comp., i, tabl. 1 

 (described but not named in 1798, Tabl. elem. de l'hist. nat. 

 des anim., p. 116) . Type. — By elimination, Vxv< rra putorius 

 Linnaeus. 



The validity of this position is denied by Allen (Bull. Amer. 

 nius. nat. bist., xiv, p. 325-334, November 12. 1901, and Proc. 

 biol. soc. Washington, xv. ]». 59-66, March 22, 1902). A rule 

 recommended by Allen, Howell, and others (Science, n. s., \vi, p. 



