MILLER AND REHN: NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS. Ill 
Subgenus Leucomitra Howell. 
1901. Leucomitra Howell, North Amer. fauna, no. 20, p. 39. 
August 31, 1901. Type. — Mephitis macroura Lichten¬ 
stein. 
Chincha macroura (Lichtenstein). 
1901. Chincha macroura Howell, North Amer. fauna, no. 
20, p. 41. August 31, 1901. 
Chincha macroura milleri (Mearns). 
1901. Chincha macroura milleri Howell, North Amer. 
fauna, no. 20, p. 42. August 31, 1901. 
227. Chincha macroura vittata (Lichtenstein). 
1832. Mephitis vittata Lichtenstein, Darstellung neuer oder 
w T enig bekannter Saugethiere, pi. xlvii, with accompanying 
• text. 
1901. Chincha macroura vittata Howell, North Amer. fauna, 
no. 20, p. 43. August 31, 1901. 
Type locality.— San Mateo del Mar, State of Oaxaca, Mex¬ 
ico. 
Genus Spilogale Gray, p. 214. It has been shown by How T ell 
(North Amer. fauna, no. 20, p. 9-10 and 14, August 31, 1901, and 
Proc. biol. soc. Washington, xv, p. 1-9, February 18, 1902) that 
in accordance with existing rules of nomenclature this name must 
give place to: 
Genus MEPHITIS Cuvier. 
1800. Mephitis Cuvier, Lemons d’anat. comp., i, tabl. 1 
(described but not named in 1798, Tabl. 61em. de V hist. nat. 
des anim., p. 116) . Type.— By elimination, Viverra putorius 
Linnaeus. 
The validity of this position is denied by Allen (Bull. Amer. 
mus. nat. hist., xiv, p. 325-334, November 12, 1901, and Proc. 
biol. soc. Washington, xv, p. 59-66, March 22, 1902). A rule 
recommended by Allen, Howell, and others (Science, n. s., xvi, p. 
