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y&YOY Hills, Madras ; Colombo, Oey- 

 lon ; Nepal ; Assam (B. M.); Upper 

 Sind Frontier; Mt. Abu, Rajputana; 

 Palanpur, Kathiawar ; Cutch ; Khan- 

 desh ; Nimar ; Central Provinces ; 

 Dharwar ; Kanara ; Coorg ; N. Pro- 

 vince, Ceylon ; Kumaon ; Behar ; 

 Orissa ; Midnapur, Bengal (T opo- 

 type of kutas, Pearson) ; Bhutan 

 Duars ; Chin Hills ; Lower Chind- 

 win ; Mt. Popa, Upper Burma 

 (M. S. I.). 



Type :— B. M. No. 57. 6. 10. 40. 

 (Lectotype of erythvotvs, Hodgs, B. 

 M. No. 43. 1. 12'. 6.). 

 1 4. F. torquata, F. Cuvier. Ti/pe locality : — Nepal. 



Other localities : — Rajputana ; Ku- 

 maon (B. M.); Junagadh and Rajkot; 

 Kathiawar (M. S. I.) 



Ty2Je :-^ Perhaps in Paris Museum. 



15. F. caracal, Giildenstadt. Tijpe locality : — Caspian Sea. 



Other localities : — Baluchistan; Sind 

 (B. M.); Cutch (M. S. I.) 

 Type : — Unknown. 



16. F. isabellina, Blyth. Type locality : — Thibet. 



Other localities '. — (jilgit ; Kashmir ; 

 Thibet (B. M.) 



Go-types : — Ind. Mus. Calc. Nos. 

 e. & /. of Sclater's Catalogue. 



Gen. II. — AciisoNYX. 



Hollister pointed out in 1911 (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, xxiv. 

 p. 225). that Cynailurus, the name adopted for this genus by 

 Blanford, was established by Wagler in 1830, whereas Brookes 

 used (Anat. Zool. Mus., p. 16.), Acinonyx in 1828. 



Hollister further noted (1. c.^ that 

 No. 44, juhatus, Schreber. this name belonged to the African 



form, and that the earliest name for 

 the Indian " cheetah " is venaticus, Gray, (Griffith's Cuv. v., 

 p. 166, 1827). 



Distribution : — 



A. venaticus, Gray. Type locaMti/ : — "India". The spe- 



cies was founded on a picture by 



