CONEPATUS MAPURITO (Graelin). 
White-backed Skunk; Yfnite-tailed Skunk. 
Viverra putorius, Mutis , "Act. Holm., XXXII, 1769, p.68" (not of 
Linnaeus). 
Viverra mapurito , Gmelin , Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p.88, No. 15 ( ex 
Mutis). — Shaw ,General Zoology, I, 1800, p.392. 
Conepatus mapurito, Coues, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr. 
2d series, No. 1, 1875, p.14 (skull and teeth).— North 
American Mustelidae, 1877, pp.249- 260, pi. XV (skull). 
