South-American Monkeys, Bats, de. 461 
ending opposite the middle of m*. Bulle not particularly 
high. 
‘eeth small throughout, as shown by the measurements, 
the carnassials particularly small, smaller than in any other 
member of the group. 
Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) :— 
Head and body 6380 millim.; tail 310; hind foot (s.u). 122 ; 
ear 68. 
Skull: greatest length in middle line 126; basal length 117; 
zygomatic breadth 73°d ; nasals (from bottom of concavity in 
front) 41°5x 11:2; interorbital breadth 28°5; across post- 
orbital process 40 ; intertemporal breadth 31:5; breadth of 
brain-case 45°5 ; palate, length 62, breadth across m* 39:2; 
horizontal length of p* (outside) 11, of m* and m? combined 
14:8, of m, 13°4, of mz 7°3, of mz 4°2. 
Hab. San Lourengo, near Pernambuco. 
Type. Adult male. Original number 1654. Collected 
6th August, 1903, by Alphonse Robert. Three specimens. 
This little dog may be readily distinguished from its allies 
by its smali size, pale ears and feet, stout flat-fronted skull, 
and unusually small carnassials. In its cranial characters no 
approximation is shown towards it by the small delicately 
built Savannah race of C. thous described by me in 1901*; 
but, on the other. hand, among examples of C. t. melampus 
from Lamar3o, Bahia, one shows such resemblance to it as to 
render advisable its description as subspecies rather than 
species. 
Mr. Robert has been very successful in obtaining specimens 
of the present group of Canide, having sent home examples 
from Matto Grosso, Minas Geraes, Sao Paulo, Espirito 
Santo, and Bahia, and has been deservedly rewarded by the 
discovery of this distinct new race inhabiting the eastern angle 
of South America. 
There appears to be no reason why Linnzeus’s name 
C. thous should have been always ignored in favour of Des- 
marest’s C. cancrivorus, both coming from the same region. 
The large and widely distributed black-footed Brazilian form 
ought apparently to bear Wagner’s appropriate name of 
C. t. melampus. 
Conepatus Huntit, sp. n. 
Most nearly allied to C. arequipe, Thos., with which it 
shares the considerable breadth of the white stripes and their 
* C. thous savannarum, Described as C. cancrivorus savannarum, Ann, 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) viii. p. 146 (1901). 
