LÖNNBERG, MAMMALS FROM ECUADOR AND RELATED FORMS. 7 



The foremost premolar, p' 2 , is absent on one side, and 

 minute on the other. 



The native name is said to be »Gato del Monte». 



Felis pajeros thomasi n. subsp. 



A very fine cat (conf. the plate) shot in a sugar-cane field 

 near Quito has been presented by Consul Söderström, and 

 it evident! v represents a new subspecies of Felis pajeros, which 

 I ha ve the pleasure of dedicatingto my friendOLDFiELD Thomas. 



The accompanying plate shows the colour and pattern of 

 this animal. The ground colour is light grey (a light »pepper 

 and salt colour») produced by thin black tips to the whitish 

 hairs. The före quarters are longitudinally striped with tan 

 colour, thinly overlaid with the narrow black tips to the hair. 

 Över the flanks and hind quarters about 5 longitudinal series of 

 similar spöts form more or less continuous chains. Along the 

 back the tan colour, overlaid with blackish, dominates. The 

 head is brownish grey, grizzled with buff, whitish, and black. 

 The skin round the eyes is black, surrounded by a narrow light 

 ring A horizontal streak of mixed buff and black extends 

 from the posterior corner of the eye backwards under the ear; 

 below the same is another similar streak from the upper lip. 

 The lip has a white patch on either side of the nose. Whiskers, 

 chin and interramial space white. On either side of the head 

 a curved tan-coloured band behind the lower jaw. Fore-neck 

 whitish with two black cross-bands and indications of a third. 

 Inside of ears white with a slight buffish tint, outer side black 

 with a round påle grey spöt (conf. the plate). Lower side of 

 body white, tinged with buffish towards the flanks, with black 

 spöts. Legs påle buffish grey with black markings. On the 

 f ore-legs the uppermost of these is f ound at the elbow, the next 

 about the middle of the fore-arm, and a third above the carpal 

 joint. On the outer side these markings are more or less bro- 

 ken up in spöts, but on the inside the two upper ones form con- 

 tinuous crossbands, while the lowermost is not at all, or very 

 little visible on the inner side of the leg. The black cross-bands 

 of the hind legs are also partly discontinuous as well on the 

 outer as the inner side. Hands and feet unspotted. The tail 

 has more or less distinct tan-coloured bands across the upper 



