6 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 8. N:0 IG. 



Zygomatic breadth 82 mm 



Least interorbital breadth 23 » 



Least postorbital breadth 34,8 » 



Breadth of braincase 52 » 



Length of bulla 27 » 



Breadth of bulla 15,7 » 



Length of palate from henselion not counting the median 



notch 50 » 



Width of choana3 14,5 » 



Eront of canine to back of carnassial 41,2 » 



Upper premolar series (alveoli) 31 » 



Upper incisors 15,3 » 



Length of upper carnassial 17 » 



The zygomatic, interorbital and postorbital dimensions 

 and the width of the braincase prove to be somewhat smaller 

 than those of Mearns' type, but the others agree very closely. 



The length of the skin head and body is about 75 cm, and 

 the tail is about 36 cm. 



Felis pardinoides andina Thomas. 



Thomas: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7). Vol. XII, p. 238. 



1 $ specimen from Ahunchi below Malchingui, altitude 

 10,000 feet; 1 c? specimen from the northern side of Pichincha, 

 altitude about 11,000 feet. 



These two specimens are similar in pattern etc, but the 

 first mentioned is more fulvous on the upper parts, and the 

 white of the lower parts is better developed. In the latter spe- 

 cimen chin and throat are white as usual, but otherwise only 

 the middle of the breast and a narrow mesial strip behind the 

 same ha ve white tips to the long hair which, however, soon dis- 

 appear in the isabelline grey of the belly. 



There is hardly any trace of a black median line on the 

 top of the neck. 



The measurements of the female skull agrees nearly with 

 those which Thomas has recorded for the type, viz. greatest 

 length 84,5; basal length 74,5; zygomatic breadth 55; length 

 of nasals mesially 17,8; interorbital breadth 15; postorbital 

 constriction 27; breadth of brain-case 39; palate length 30; 

 length of p.* 9,8 mm. 



