432 MYDAUS. MELES. MEPHITIS. 



745. Mydaus marchii Huet. 



Mydaus marcliei Huet, Le Naturaliste, 1887, p. 149, tig. i. 



Mydaus schadeiihergii Jentink, Notes Leyden Museum, 1895, p. 

 46, fig. p. 45. 

 Marche's Badger. 



I. Adult d^ P. Philippines. Bourns & Worcester. 



Genus 215. 31eles. 



Meles Briss., Regn. Anim., 2d ed., 1762, p. 183. Type Meles nieles 

 Urisson^ UrsHS nieles Linnaeus. 



746. Meles meles (Linnaeus). 



Ursus ineles Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 48; i, 1766, p. 70. 



Meles taxus Bodd., Elench. Anim., i, 1785, p. 80. 



Meles europaeus D.esm., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., in, 1820, p. 465. 

 European Badger. 



I. Adult — P. Germany. Ward's Nat. Scien. Establ., Roches- 

 ter, X. Y. 



Genus 216. ^lopliiti.s. Skuiik.s. 



Mephitis Cuv., Lefons d'anat. Comp., Class Mamm., i, 1800, Tabl. 



I. Type " Les Moiifettes." 

 Ckincha Less., Nouv. Tabl. R^gn. Anim., 1842, p. 67. 

 Leuconiitra Howell, N. Am. Faun., No. 20, 1901, p. 39, pis. iv. 



vin. 



Subgenus A. Chincha. Large-striped Skunks. 



747. Mephitis mephitis (Schreber). 



Viverra tnephitis Schreb., Saugth., in, 1778, p. 444, Tab. 121. 

 Mephitis niephitica Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. ^L Pub., 



II, 1901, p. 322, fig. 64. Zool. Ser. (Part.) 

 Mephitis mephitis Elliot, Check-L. Mamm. N. Amer. Cont. & W. 

 Indies, F. C. M. Pub., vi, 1905, p. 406. Zool. Ser. 

 Canada Skunk. 



I. Adult c? Coll. White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. T. 

 Surber. 

 2-3. Adult 6" Exch. Hastings, N. Y. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y. J. Rowlev. 



