NORTH AMERICAN LAND MAMMALS. 107 



t*Spilogale lucasana Meriiain. 



1890. Sfilogale lucasana Merrl!\.m:, North Amer. Fauna, No. 4, 



p. 11. Octobers, 1890. 

 Type Locality. — Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, Mexico. 

 Range. — Cape region of Lower California. 



Genus MEPHITIS Geoffrey and Cuvier.^ 



1795. Mephitis Geoffroy and Cuvier, Mag. Encyclop., Ire 

 ann6e, vol. 2, p. 187. Type, Viverra mephitis Schreber. 



Subgenus Mephitis Ceoffroy and Cuvier. 



*Mephitis mephitis (Schreber). 



1766. Viverra mephitis Schreber, Saugthiere, vol. 3, p. 444. 

 1902. Mephitis mephitis Allen and others. Science, n. s., vol. 



16, p. 114, July 18, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern Canada. 



Range. — Eastern Canada — Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern 

 Ontario; west and north at least to Oxford House, Keewatin. 



*Mephitis hudsonica (Richardson). 



1829. Mephitis americana var. hudsonica Richardson, Fauna 



Boreah-Americana, vol. 1, p. 55. 

 1895. Mephitis hudsonica Bangs, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 26, p. 534. July 31, 1895. 

 Type Locality. — Plains of the Saskatchewan. 

 Range. — Western Canada from Manitoba to British Columbia 



(east of the Cascades) ; south in the United States to Colorado, 



Nebraska, and Minnesota. 



*Mephitis putida Boitard. 



1842. Mephitis putida Boitard, Jardin des Plantes, Mamm., 



p. 147. 

 1885. Mephitis mephitica True Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 609. 1885. (Part.) 

 1901. Chincha putida Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, p. 



25. August 31, 1901. 

 Type Locality. — New Jersey. 

 Range. — New England and Middle Atlantic States; south to 



Virginia; west to Indiana. 



1 Revised, under the name Chincha, by Howell, North Amer. Famia, No. 20, August 31, 1901. For 

 discussion of the nomenclature of this genus see Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, p. 14, August 31, 

 1901; Proc. Biol. Soc. V.'ashington, vol. 15, pp. 1-9, February 18, 1902; North Amer. Fauna, No. 26, pp. 

 10-11, November 24, 1906; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 14, pp. 325-334; Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 15, pp. 59-C6, March 22, 1902; Allen and others, Science, n. s., vol. 10, pp. 114-115, July 18,1902. 



