214 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Mephitis milleri Mearns. 
1897. Mephitis milleri Meakns, Preliminary diagnoses of 
new mammals of the genera Mephitis, Dorcelaphus, and Dico- 
• tyles, from the Mexican boundary of the United States, p. 1. 
February 11, 1897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. nat. mus., xx, p. 
467. December 24, 1897.) 
Type locality. — Fort Lowell, near Tucson, Pima County, 
Arizona. 
Mephitis occidentalis Baird. 
1857. Mephitis occidentalis Baird, Mamm. N. Amer., p. 194. 
1897. Mephitis occidentalis Mearns, Preliminary diagnoses 
of new mammals of the genera Lynx, Urocyon, Spilogale, 
and Mephitis, from the Mexican boundary line, p. 5. Janu¬ 
ary 12, 1897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. nat. mus., xxj p. 461. 
December 24, 1897.) 
Type locality. — Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. 
Mephitis occidentalis holzneri Mearns. 
1897. Mephitis occidentalis holzneri Mearns, Preliminary 
diagnoses of new mammals of the genera Lynx, Urocyon, 
Spilogale, and Mephitis, from the Mexican boundary line, p. 4. 
January 12, 1897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. nat. mus., xx, p. 
461. December 24, 1897.) 
Type locality. — San Isidro Ranch, Lower California, Mex¬ 
ico, near border of San Diego County, California. 
Mephitis spissigrada Bangs. 
1898. Mephitis spissigrada Bangs, Proc. biol. soc. Washing¬ 
ton, XII, p. 31. March 24, 1898. 
Type locality^. — Sumas, British Columbia, Canada. 
Genus SPILOG-ALE Gray.' 
1865. hipilogale Gray, Proc. zool. soc. London, p. 150. Type.— 
Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque. 
1A revision of this genus was published by Merriam in 1890 (North Amer. fauna, no. 4, 
pp. 1-15, October 8,1890), but so many forms have since then been described that the 
species are here arranged alphabetically. 
