NASTJA. 



241 



given in my paper on Ursidce, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 703), in having a 

 long narrow compressed nose and elongated canine teeth. It differs 

 from the skuU of N. nariea in the upper jaw heing rather shorter 

 from the middle of the cutting-teeth to the end of the last molar, 

 and rather wide at the hinder part at the sides of the hinder molars, 

 and rather narrower at the end of the nose. The upper cutting- 

 teeth are narrower ; that is to say, the space occupied by the series 

 is considerably narrower than the space they occupy in the skull of 

 N. nariea above referred to. These may all be mere individual 

 peculiarities, since the skulls of the different specimens of Nasua in 

 the Museum, as I observed in the article on Ursidce above quoted, 

 are very variable. 



SkuUs. 



N. nariea. 225g'. Aged 



225 A. Aged 



225a. Aged 



225«. Adult 



225y. 



225/. Skull B.M. 

 N.rufa... 224«. Adult 



2246 



224c 



1. 



1 











9 



9 



6 



8? 



6 



in. 1. 



3 4 



■0 



11 



in. I. 

 1 10 

 1 114 

 1 11^ 



in. 1. 



1 



1 Oi 



11 



1 



1 



11 



11 



1 

 



943 





in. 1. 



3 3 

 3 3 

 3 34 

 3 

 3 1 



2 11* 



3 0' 

 2 11 







■a '3 



in. 1. 

 11 



u 



9 



10 



9 



9 



9^ 



11 



8J 



in. 1. 



Cm V 



His 



2 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 10 



4. Nasua olivacea. B.M. 



Olive-brown, grizzled ; hairs black-brown, with a yellowish sub- 

 terminal ring ; under-fur black ; face pale ; orbits, legs, and feet 

 blackish brown ; chest yeUowish grey ; tail short, with black rings 

 and a black tip. 



Nasua olivacea, Chray, Cat. Mamm. B.M. App. p. 195 (not described). 



Hah. Santa Pe de Bogota. 



I do not know : — 



1. Nasua solitaria, Pr. Max. Beitr. ii. p. 292. 



2. Nasua noctuma, Pr. Max. Beitr. ii. p. 292, from Brazil. 



3. Nasua monticola, Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, p. 102, t. 5, from Peru. 



Are they distinct ? 



