192 CANIDiE. 



6. SIMENIA. B.M. 



Head elongate ; aose very slender, elongate. Skull with, a very 

 slender elongate nose ; the premolars small and very far apart. 



Simenia, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 506. 



Simenia simensis. (Abyssinian Wolf.) B.M. 



Canis simensis, MiippeU, Abyss. Fauna, t. 14; Gray, Cat, Mamm, 



B. M. p. 58 ; Gerrard, Cat. of Bones Mamm. p. 82. 

 Simenia simensis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 606, i. 4. 



Hah. Abyssinia {Rwppell, type in B.M.). 



Skull 162(1 (fig. 26). Length 7 inches 9 lines. Coronal ridge linear. 



7. CHRYSOCYON. 



Head very long ; nose slender. Pupils round. Tail short, reach- 

 ing only to the hocks. 



Skull elongate ; nose very long, slender ; coronal crest single, 

 linear ; postorbital process thick, convex above, bent down at the 

 tip. Premolars approximate, large. Sectorial tooth in the same 

 line as the other teeth. Internal palate narrow. 



Ohrysocyon, Ham. Smith, Dogs ; Burmeister, Faun. Bras. p. 24 ; 

 Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 506. 



* Upper sectorial tooth moderate. Ohrysocyon. — Gray, I. c. p. 506. 



1. Chrysocyon jubata. (Guara.) B.M. 



Canis mexicanus, Sonn. Nouv. Diet. vi. p. 505 (not lAnn.). 



Canis jubatus, Desm. Mamm. p. 198 ; Burm. Faun. Brasil. t. 21, t. 26. 



f. 1. 

 Ohrysocyon iubata, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 89; Grai/, 



P. Z. S. 1868, p. 506. 

 Canis campestris, Pr. Max. Beitr. ii. p. 334. n. 1 ; Blainv. Ost^ogr. 



t. 7 (skull). 

 Loup rouge, Cav. R. A. i. p. 154, iv. t. 1. 



Hah. South America (solitary); Paraguay (^rara); Brai^ (Pr. 

 Max.) ; Buenos Ayres. j 



** Upper seetmial tooth transverse, very large. Neocyin. — 

 Gray, I. c. p. 506. ' 



2. Ohrysocyon latrans. (Prairie-Wolf. Coyote.) B.M. 



SkuU 171 a very like Lupus anthus ; but nose longer and more 



slender. Muzzle short, like that of a Pox ; tail short, like a Wolfs. 



Canis latrans. Say, in Long's Fxped, i. p. 168 ; Aud. 8^ Bachm. N. A. 

 Quad. ii. p. 150, t. 71, 1829 ; Baird, Mamm. iV. A. p. 113 ; Ger- 

 rard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. p. 85 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 

 p. 58; Blainv. Osteogr. t. 7 (skull). 



Vulpes velox, Gerrard, Cat. of Bones of Mamm. n. 1237 o. 



Ohrysocyon (Neocyon) latrans. Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 606. 



