FELIDJE. FELIS. 443 



Claws retractile, long, sharp, curved, compressed; feet digitigrade, 

 five toes on fore feet, four on hind; soles hairy; pads naked; tongue 

 covered with sharp, hornlike papillae, pointing backward; only one 

 true molar on each side above and below, and two inferior pre- 

 molars; upper carnassial (posterior premolar) very large, with a tri- 

 lobed blade, and a small inner tubercle with separate root; lower 

 carnassial (true molar) a large, compressed, sharp blade with two 

 subequal lobes, without inner cusp; canines long, curved, acute, 

 edges trenchant; skull short, broad; facial portion short; zygomata 

 very wide, arched; bullae large, smooth; clavicles not articulating 

 with scapulas or sternum. 



85. Pel is. 



Felis Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 41; i, 1766, p. 60. Type Felis 



catus Linnasus. 

 Linx (sic) Frisch. Das Natur-syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 



12 Tab. Gen., 1775. 

 Lynx Kerr, Anim. Kingd. Syst. Catal., between pp. 32-33, 1792, 



desc. p. 155, Rafin., Am. Month. Mag., i, 1817, p. 437. 

 Lynchus Jard., Nat. Libr. Mamm., n, 1834, pp. 274-275. 

 Puma Jard., Nat. Libr., Mamm., n, 1834, p. 266. 

 Jaguirius Servertz., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Ser., x, 1858, p. 386-390 

 Lynchailiirus Servertz., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Ser., x, 1858, p. 



386-390. 



Noctifelis Servertz., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Ser., x, 1858, p. 386-390. 

 Oncifelis Servertz., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Ser., x, 1858, p. 386-390. 

 Herpailurus Severtz., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Ser., x, 1858, p. 385. 

 Leopardus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 263. 

 Margay Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 271. 

 Pardalis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 272. 

 Cervaria Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 276. 

 Tail long, exceeding half the length of the body without head 

 and neck; anterior premolar small. 



KEY TO THE SUBGENERA. 



A. Tail about the length of the body without 



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a. Adults and young spotted or striped .......... Leopardus 444 



B. Tail about half the length of body without head. 



a. Adults unspotted, young spotted .................. Felis 454 



C. Tail less than half the length of body without 

 head. 



a. Adults and young spotted ........................ Lynx 456 



