140 ifearns — T/if Aincrifdn Jagdara. 



to the toes, those of the arms ami thiirhs measuring :50 to (>() millimeters 

 in diameter. Claws, horn color. Tail spotted and banded with black, 

 the intervening areas bein^r clay color or somewhat hoary nearest the 

 tip, which is broadly black. The upper side of tail has more black 

 than li,<iht. the under side havin<i- the black and clay-colored areas about 

 equal in amount. In the median line, above, each li.srht rini.' has a black 

 spot, and the last pale rings are mixed with black hairs. There are 

 three subterminal bands of solid black above, the more proximal ones 

 being interrupted. On the under side of tail the pattern is confused 

 and the light areas whitish. Underparts buft'y white, heavily blotched 

 with black. Under side of body with a median chain of small black 

 spots, anil two rows of somewhat (luadrate black blotches on either side, 

 the spots averaging about fifty millimeters in diameter. On the under 

 side of neck and head, the black spots, which are much smaller than 

 those on the chest and abdomen, tend to form transverse chains, while 

 those of the cheeks and niu/.zle are arranged in longiludinal series. 

 The flat skin of a jaguar taken about 1(X) miles up the Segovia River, 

 which forms the boundary between Nicaragua and Honduras, killed by 

 Mr. Charles H. Townsend of the United States Fish Commission, closely 

 resembles the specimen from Costa Kica just described, differing in be- 

 ing slightly more intense in coloring, the vertebral spots coalescing so 

 that an interrupted median dorsal stripe is formed: and some spots in 

 the lateral rows are tilled with black, others having the rosettes elon- 

 gated and resembling llie outline of the animars hind foot, small blTick 

 spots suggesting the pads or tuberch^s. in general, the two may be con- 

 sidered to be identical. 



Slnill (1)1(1 ^«'^A.— Skull high, narrow interorbilally. with small, pointed 

 audita! bullie. Dentition weaker than in the remaining forms (see 

 measurements). 



Meaitriri'mfntx. —FoWovi'mii are measurements taken from the skin of 

 an adult male. No. (n.l92, U. S. National Museum Collection: length, 

 1800 mm.; tail, 57."): hin<l fool, 220; ear from crown, (!0: chord of long- 

 est hind claw, 2:!: fore claw, 2(). The Hat skin described above, from 

 Honduras, has the end of the tail gone: its head and l)ody measure 1 IT.') 

 mm. in length. Measurements of skulls of two adult males (Nos. 14,177 

 and 14,17r), both from Talamanca, Costa Rica, collected by Professor W. 

 iS[. (Jabb): basilar length, 200, 212: zygomatic breadth, l(i9, 175; mastoid 

 breadth, 102, lO."): distance bet ween orbits, 42..), 4."): between tips of post- 

 orbital processes, 08, 70..5: postorbital constriction, 41.5, 4:5: length of 

 nasals, on median liiii', 5!). (Wi: greatest breadth of nasals, '!8, 43: distance 

 from foramen magnum to liinder margin of palate, lo:5, 108: from pos- 

 terior margin of palate to middle incisor tooth, !)8, 10(>: length of in- 

 terpterygoid fossa from base of hainular i)rocess, :>3, :57: distance be- 

 tween upper carnassials, .52.5: .5(): distance between upper canines, 

 32, 30.5: greatest length of mandible, 107, 180: greatest height of man- 

 dible, 81, 84: length of upper incisor series, measured on alveoli, 21), 32; 

 distance across ui)per canines, measured on alveoli, outside, 05, 69; 

 length of upper lateral tool hmw, 75, 82.5: length of upper premolar 



