FELIS. 453 



nasals, 24; palatal length, 33; bullae, 18x12; length of upper tooth 

 row from front of canine, 30; length of upper carnassial, 12.5; length 

 of lower carnassial, 9.7 ; length of mandible, 60; height of condyle, 13 ; 

 at coronoid process, 27. 



461. eyra (Felis), Fisch., Zoogn., 1814, p. 228. Elliot, Mon. Felidae, 



pi. xiv; Id. Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 295. 

 THE EYRA. Apache, Onza in Mexico. 



Type locality. Paraguay. 



Geogr. Distr. Brownsville, Texas, south to Paraguay, east of the 

 Andes. 



Genl. Char. Body long and slender; legs short; tail very long. 



Color. Rich brownish red ; darkest on the back, lightest on belly ; 

 tail same color. 



Measurements. Total length, 670; tail vertebrae, 230. 



a. apache (Felis}, Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, p. 150. 



eyra. Baird, Rep. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., Mamm., 1857, 



p. 88, pi. LXII, fig. i. 

 THE TAMAULIPAS EYRA. 



Type locality. Rio Grande del Norte, State of Tamaulipas, 

 Mexico. 



Genl. Char. "Size of common house cat; body long and slender; 

 head small; ears short, without tufts; tail long. Skull: no frontal 

 fossa; marked lateral constriction of the audital bullae; posterior 

 narial fossa narrow; teeth small. 



Color. Entirely rufous, including tail; no spots visible. 



Measurements. Skull: "basilar length of Hensel, 76; zygomatic 

 breadth, 60; least interorbital breadth, 19; intertemporal breadth, 32 ; 

 breadth of braincase above auditory meatus, 41; palate, length from 

 henselion to posterior edge, excluding median notch, 32.2; greatest 

 diameter of orbit, 26; greatest length of nasal bone, 20; breadth of 

 nasal bones opposite end of nasal processes of f rentals, 8.5; anterior 

 narial orifice, 12X11; breadth of jugal, 7; audital bullae, 18X10; 

 breadth between outer corners of carnassials, 33 ; breadth of posterior 

 narial fossa, 12; front of upper canine to back of carnassial, 25; 

 length of upper carnassial, n; length of lower carnassial, 8.8." 

 (Mearns, 1. c.) 



462. fossata (Felis}, Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, p. 150. 

 YUCATAN EYRA. 



Type locality. Merida, Yucatan. 



Genl. Char. Skull alone known. "Skull narrow, its greatest 

 diameters, 91X60 mm.; convex posteriorly, flattened supraorbit- 



