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locality. The large amount of individual variation in the bullae leads 

 me to distrust their reliability as affording characters. Their great size 

 in the Sao Paulo specimen may be abnormal. 



Cranial measurements. — An adult Z (No. 100118 U. S. N. M.) 

 from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a yg-ad. $ from Brazil (exact locality un- 

 known — the 9 in parentheses): Basal length 171 (141); zygomatic 

 breadth 139 (112) ; postpalatal length 88. 5 (72) ; interorbital breadth 

 41 (31) ; upper carnassial 23.5 (22). 



FELIS BANGSI sp. nov. North Andean Puma. 



Type from Dibulla, Colombia, South America. No. 8413 $ ad. 



Bangs Collection. October 8, 1899. W. \V. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — Size medium; pelage (in type specimen) short and 

 rather coarse ; color I'usty or reddish fulvous ; skull rather light ; teeth 

 smallest and slenderest of the known species. 



Color. — Upperparts from head to tail ferruginous, not noticeably 

 mixed with black hairs and rather narrowly confined to top of back, 

 shading to dull fulvous on sides ; the fulvous becoming still paler on 

 belly, throat, legs, and feet ; inguinal and pectoral regions whitish ; 

 chin and lips buffy white, the upper lip posteriorly suffused with pale 

 dull fulvous ; ears blackish except at extreme base ; tail above ferrugi- 

 nous, becoming dark rusty brown, but without trace of dark median 

 stripe ; below grayish brown, the dark brown underfur showing 

 through ; tip black, and in the type specimen indistinctly annulated, 

 there being an incomplete blackish ring above the tip, preceded and 

 followed, on the sides, by grayish fulvous intervals. 



Cranial characters. — Skull of medium size and rather light ; 

 sagittal crest in male, high where it ci^osses occipital sulcus, and con- 

 tinuing in a low ridge to frontals ; frontals not elevated and rather 

 flattened; nasals (in type specimen) moderately broad and obliquely 

 truncate posteriorly ; females without trace of sagittal crest except 

 across occipital sulcus ; bullae and basisphenoid normal. Teeth smaller 

 than in any other known species ; canines very slender ; upper car- 

 nassial in adult male measuring only 22 mm. Sexual differences in 

 size unusually marked, both in skull and teeth. Skull similar in gen- 

 eral to that of concolor ixovci Brazil, from which it differs in flatter and 

 lower frontals, presence of distinct sagittal crest (in adult male) , 

 smaller bullae ; narrower exposed base of presphenoid ; persistence of 

 sphenoid suture ; much more slender canines, smaller and narrower 

 premolars and carnassials, and absence of outer angle on upper car- 

 nassial (the place of this angle being concave). Compared with F. 



