NO. 2 NEW MAMMALS FROM EASTERN PANAMA — GOLDMAN I 5 



along lateral border of nasals (meeting in Winge's photograph i E 

 venaticus) ; third upper premolar shorter and more obliqueh placed : 

 fourth upper premolar narrower in pr< »porti< m to its length ; molars |. 



Measurements. — Type: Total length, 740 mm. : tail vertebrae, [25 : 

 hind foot, 118. Average of two nearly full grown young females: 

 689 (680-698): 130 (130-130); 114 (113-115). Skull (typ 

 Occipitonasal length, 122: condylobasal length, [29.2; zvgom 

 breadth, /S: nasals, 36.2 x 14; interorbital breadth. 30.8; palatal 

 length, 65 ; upper molariform tooth row, 43 : alveolar length of 

 ond upper premolar, 6.2; length of third upper premolar, 6.8; length 

 of fourth upper premolar, 11.8; breadth of fourth upper premolar, 

 5.8: length of first upper molar, 9; breadth of first upper molar, 6.3. 



Remarks. — The discovery of a bush f\>>'^ in Panama materially 

 extends the known range of the genus. I am unable to make direct 

 comparison of the Panaman species with museum material of the 

 Brazilian /. venaticus, but it differs in apparently important respects 

 and in view of its isolation will doubtless be found to possess addi- 

 tional characters when specimens of the two forms are brought to- 

 gether. The lighter areas of the body are of a paler, less rusty red 

 color than represented in the descriptions and illustrations of Lund, 1 

 Burmeister, 2 Flower 3 and Mivart." The skull figured by Lund seem- 

 to be of a young individual and the figures untrustworthy. Those 

 figured by Burmeister, Huxley " and Mivart are better, but each dif- 

 fers considerably in detail and they may not all represent typical 

 venaticus. Better still, for comparative purposes, is a photograph 

 by Winge " of the upper surface of a skull apparently representing 

 the typical animal from Lagoa Santa, Brazil. It is worthy of note 

 that in the Panaman form the second upper molars are present in 

 all of the three skulls examined. One skull of an old female shows 

 that these teeth are at least not always early deciduous as Flower 

 suggested may be the case in venaticus. 



Specimens examined. — Three, an old female and her offspring, 

 two nearly full-grown young, from the type locality. 



1 Kongel. Danske Videnskab. Selskabs, natur. og. math. Afhandlinger, 11 

 Deel. Kjobenhavn, 1S45, " Blik paa Brasiliens Dyrevei sidste Jordom- 

 vseltning, 5"' Afhandling," p. 62, pis. 41 and \,\. 



2 Erlauterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens, 1856, pp. 1 [8, pis. 17 



3 Proc. Zool. Soc, [880, pp. J') 76, pi. 10. 



4 Monograph of Canidae, [890, pp. 189-194, pi. 43, text figs. 52-54. 



5 Proc. Zool. Sm\, [880, pp. 268-269. 



8 E. Museo Lundii, "Jordfundne og nulevende Rovdyr (Carnivora 

 a Santa. Minas Geraes, Brasilien,*' pp. 29-31, pi. 5. 



