1164 
Amblyomma fSSl.— Ext. 
^fossum. 
Rhopalopsyllus tl635^.— Ext. 
australis tamoyus. — Sao Paulo, 
zil. 
Trichodectes fl 100.— Ext. 
harbarae. — Brazil — T. h. 
Bra- 
of subfamily. Central and South America. Syns.: Galera Browne, 1789, 
Civil & Nat. Hist, Jamaica, pt. 2, book 3, 485, pi. 49, fig. 2, mt. barbara 
Linn.; Gray, 1843, List Spec. Mamm. Coll. Brit. Mus., pp. xx, 67, mt. 
barbara Linn.; La'ira Cuvier, 1826, Hist. nat. Mamm., V, livr. 55, pi. with 2 
pp. text under "le Galera," Sept. (new name for Galera Browne, 1789). Cf.. 
Ezra Smith, ''1839" or 1842 or 1858; Eirara Lund, 1839; and Eiraria Gray,, 
1843. 
#525 Tayra [or Galera, GaHctis Gulo Putorius i, Viverra '] {Galera, Tayra)> 
barbara (Linn., 1758a, 46 [Mustela ']) Thomas, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc- 
London, 138. Tayra, Hyrare, Irdra Papa-mel. Central and South. 
America (Brazil 
Diphyllobothrium 1295. Prosthenorchis t501p. — Intest. 
reptans. — Larva. Subcutaneous. 
Dioctophyme t426. 
viscerale. 
FUaria t449. 
martis. — Skin. 
mustelae-barbarae °. — Brazil. 
perforans ^. — Thorax. 
quadrispina ^ 
#525 Tayra [or Galera °, Grison ^ {Galera », Tayra) barbara senex (Thomas,. 
1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, v. 5, Jan., 146, 147 [Galictis »]) Miller,. 
1912, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bui. 79, 103. Gray-headed Grison, Cabeza, Cabeza. 
de Viejo. Hacienda Tortugas, Jalapa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico*. 
Diphyllobothrium t295. 
reptans. — Subcutaneous. 
#526 (518). Teeth not of sectorial type; upper carnassial about as wide as long,, 
v.'ith the talon median and arising by a long base from the blade; molar about 
3 times the size of carnassial, as long as wide; lower carnassial with a long 
wide heel, and the metaconid as large as the other cusps; upper incisive 
line curved. Feet fossorial, with long powerful claws. See #527. 
#527. MELiNAE Baird, 1857, Mamm. N. Amer., 148, 190.— Badgers. Two 
carpal pads separated by a naked or hairy space from wide plantar pad; 
interdigital webs naked below, narrow between the digital pads; third and 
fourth digits of hind foot in contact; a well-developed, partially divided 
metatarsal pad. No trace of bursa on ear; rhinarium very deep beneath 
lateral slits of nostrils. A deep subcaudal glandular pouch. See #528. 
#528. Meies Brisson, 1762, Regnum Anim., 183, 249, tat. meles Linn.; or Meles 
Storr, 1780, Prodromus, 34, tat. Ursus ' meles. — True badgers, blaireau, Dachs. 
Skull narrow and high (depth of brain-case much more than half mastoid 
breadth), zygomatic arches not widely expanded, and postorbital region 
not specially narrowed (distance from point of greatest narrowing to zy- 
goma less than breadth of postorbital constriction) ; rostrum elongate, dis- 
tance from orbit to gnathion about three-fourths length of brain-case; 
auditory bulla elevated along inner margin, but elsewhere somewhat flat- 
tened, the meatal tube distinct; paroccipital process robust, standing out 
conspicuously behind bulla; teeth 38 (i. 3/3, c. 1/1, pm. 4/4 (in adults 
usually 3/4, due to early disappearance of the small pmO> m. 1/2), teeth 
not specially enlarged as compared with width of rostrum and palate (great- 
est transverse diameter of upper carnassial equal to a little more than one- 
third distance between carnassials) ; 3 small premolars (1 upper and 2 lower) 
capable of trenchant action; upper carnassial with crown triangular in out- 
