NO. 5 NEW Mx\iMMALS FROM PANAMA — GOLDMAN 5 



General characters. — A large, long-tailed tiger-cat, probably a 

 member of the F. pardinoides group. Pelage rather long and soft ; 

 fur of nape not reversed ; skull large with narrowly spreading zygo- 

 mata and fully inflated audital bullae. 



Color. — Ground color of upper parts ochraceous tawny (Ridgway, 

 1912), nearly uniform from nape to base of tail, but becoming 

 somewhat paler on head and paling through cinnamon buff to pink- 

 ish buff along lower part of sides; general upper surface heavily 

 lined and spotted with black, the spots on sides more or less com- 

 pletely encircling tawny areas, or forming rosettes; back of neck 

 with a narrow median black line and two broader parallel lines, one 

 on each side ; shoulders marked by heavy diagonal stripes extending 

 from near a rounded solid black median spot downward and for- 

 ward on each side ; posterior part of back with two narrow central 

 lines extending to near base of tail; under parts white, heavily 

 spotted with black across abdomen, and with black bars, one across 

 throat and one across neck; outer- sides of- forearms and hind legs 

 cinnamon buffy, spotted with black ; feet buft'y grayish interrupted 

 by small black markings ; ears deep black, with white submarginal 

 spots and buffy edges ; tail with about 12 broad, irregular, but nearly 

 complete black rings, the narrow interspaces buffy above and white 

 below. 



Skull. — Large and rather elongated, the vault of braincase highest 

 near f ronto-parietal suture ; frontal region broad ; zygomata slightly 

 spreading posteriorly, the squamosal arms not strongly bowed out- 

 ward ; palate narrow ; audital bullae large and much inflated anteri- 

 orly. 



Measurements. — Type : Total length, 963 mm. ; tail vertebrae, 440 ; 

 hind foot, 131. 5. Skull (type) : Greatest length, 99.6; condylobasal 

 length, 95.6; zygomatic breadth, 62.8; interorbital breadth, 18.5; 

 length of nasals (median line), 17.6; greatest breadth of nasals, 13; 

 intertemporal breadth of braincase, 34 ; breadth between tips of post- 

 orbital processes, 51.5; length of palate, 38.5; length of upper in- 

 cisive tooth row, 12.2; alveolar length (outer side) of upper car- 

 nassial, 11.6. 



Remarks. — This tiger cat is provisionally referred to the little 

 known F. pardinoides group. In size it seems nearer to the F. wiedii 

 group, but it lacks the reversed pelage of nape commonly ascribed 

 to that group. Moreover, the skull is more elongated than in the 

 available Mexican and Brazilian specimens used for comparison 

 and assumed to represent the F. wiedii group. It may be similar 



