CONEPATL. $89 
this be case, it ought surely to be treated, as an 
eminent zoologist has well observed, with the 
highest attention. 
VAR, 
Among some miscellaneous plates of animals, 
published a few years ago by Mr. Catton, is a re- 
presentation of what seems to be a variety of the 
above species; having only four white bands on 
the back, and the tail almost entirely white : a 
patch of white appears below each ear, and a 
small triangular white spot on the forehead. In 
the description accompanying the plate the ani- 
mal is said to have measured twelve inches from 
nose to tail, and to have been brought from Ben- 
gal- 
CONEPATL. 
Virerra Conepatl, V, nigricans, lineis duahus albis dorsalibus per 
caudam productis, Lin. Syst, Nat, Gmel.p. 88. 
Blackish W. with two white dorsal lines extending along the 
tail. 
Conepatl, seu vulpecula puerilis. Hernand max, p. 232. 
Of this species very little more than its mere 
name and descriptive character seems to be 
known. It is a native of New Spain, and, per- 
haps, may be nothing more than a variety of the 
preceding. 
