LUTRA. fig I 



h. Stuffed Captain Paterson, 1838, 



A.S.B. 



/. Skull juv. No history, A.S.8. 



*. Sltuil juv. No history, A.S.B. 



I. Slcull $ A.S.8. 



m. Skeleton g I^. Skipwith, 1847, A.S.B. 



Arctonyx taxoides. 



Arctonyx laxoides, Biylh y. A. S. B., xxii, p. 591 (1853) ; Blyth Cat. no. 

 213, p. 71 ; Spearman Burma Gaiett-f P'SS3l iinderS'on Ahat.Zool, Res,, 

 p. 196; Blanford Mammals, p. 180. 



Distribution. — Probably the same as thfe last. Assam, Sylhet, 

 Arakan and possibly China, if Meks leucolsemus, Milne Edw. is 

 indistinguishable from this species as suggested by Blanford. 



a. Stuffed, skull Assam J. McClelland, 1843, A.S.B. 



[Type of A. taxoides, Blyth], 



*. Stuffed juv. Arakan Sir A. Phayre, 1848, A.S.B. 



Genus MEPHITIS. 



Mephitis, G. Cuvier Tableau Gen, in Lemons d' Anat. Comp., ist ed., i, 

 (1800)*. 



Mephitis mephltica. 



Viverra putorius, Linnteus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 64 (lyfiC)^ 

 Viverra mephitis, Schreber Sdageih., iii, p. 444, pi. cxxi \ijjS), 

 Viverra mephitica, Shaw A}us. Lenerianum, p. 177 (1792)*. 

 Mephitis varians. Gray CharlesWi Mag. N. H., i, p. 581 (1837) ; id. Cat. Cam- 



Mamm., p. 1^6, 

 Mephitis mephitica, Saird N. Amer. Mamm., p. 195 (1857)* ; Couei Fur- 

 bearing Animals of North America, p. 195. 



Distribution.— IJonh America, from Hudson's Bay and Great 

 Slave Lake to Guatemala. 



a. Skin nr. Lake Scugog, j. H. Gamier [Ex.]. 



Canada. 



i.^Skelet. No history. 



c. Skull Upton, Maine, W. Theobald. 



U. S. A., 29-9-68. 



d. Ale. ? W. Rutledge. 



Genus LUTRA. 



Lutra, Erxleben Syst. Regh. Anim., p. 443 (1777). 

 Aonyx, Lesson Man. Mamm., p. 157 (1827). Type, Lutra capensrs. 

 Lataxina, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 70 (1843). Type, Lutra canadensis. 

 Barangia, Gray P. Z, S., p. 123 (1865). Type, L. sumatrana. 



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