110 BULLETIN 79, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



*Mephitis occidentalis holzneri Mearns. 



1897. liephitis occidentalis holzneri Mearns, Preliminary diag- 

 noses of new mammals of the genera Lynx, Urocyon, Spilo- 

 gale, and Mephitis, from the Mexican boundary line, p. 4. 

 January 12, 1897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, 

 p 461. December 24, 1897.) 



Type Locality. — San Isidro Ranch, Lower California, Mexico; 

 near border of San Diego County, California. 



Range. — Southern California, from the vicinity of Monterey 

 Bay south into Lower California; east to the Sierra Nevada 

 and San Bernardino Range; limits of southward range 

 unknown. 



t*Mephitis platyrhina (Howell). 



1901. Chincha platyrhina Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, 



p. 39. August 31, 1901. 

 1901. Mephitis platyrhina Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 14, p. 334. November 12, 1901. 

 Type Locality. — South fork of Kern River, 2,5 miles east of 



Kernville, Kern County, California. 

 Range. — Known only from the type locality and from Owens 



Valley. 



Subgenus Leucomitra Howell. 



1901. Leucomitra Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 20, p. 39. 

 August 31, 1901. Type, Mephitis ma crourahicwi'ENST'Ei-N. 



* Mephitis macroura macroura Lichtenstein. 



1834. Mephitis macroura Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder 



wenig bekannter Saugethiere, pi. 46. 

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



(1884), p. 609. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Mountains northwest of the City of Mexico. 

 Range. — Highlands of central and southern Mexico; south to 



Guatemala. 



t*Mephitis macroura milleri (Mearns). 



1897. Mephitis milleri Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses of new 

 mammals of the genera Mephitis, Dorcelaphus, and Dicotyles, 

 from the Mexican boundary of the United States, p. 1 . Feb- 

 ruary 11, 1897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 

 467. December 24, 1897.) 



1901. Mephitis macroura milleri Allen, Bull. Amer. ]\Ius. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 14, p. 334. November 12, 1901. 



Type Locality. — Fort Lowell, near Tucson, Pima County, 

 Arizona. 



Range. — Southern Ai-izona, Sonora, and parts of Chihuahua, 

 Sinaloa, Durango, and Coahuil.'?. 



