220 FEMS MEGALOTIS. 



Dr. Gray has euregistered it iu his Catalogue of' Car- 

 nivorous, 1869, p. 33 and in P. Z. S. L. 1867, p. 275, in the 

 following short terms: »Hab. Timor. Not seen by me." 



Dr. Mivart has given a translation of Müller's original 

 description (see: The Cat, an introduction to the study 

 of Backboned Animals, 1881, p. 417). Dr. Mivart however 

 failed to give Timor as certain locality: perhaps Mivart 

 did so because some time before Mr. Elliot had given no 

 credit to that locality and because Wallace (the geographi- 

 cal distribution of Animals, 1876, Vol. I, p. 422) too 

 was of Elliot's opinion , for he wrote : » the Felis tnegalotis^ 

 long supposed to be a native of Timor, has been ascer- 

 tained by Mr. Elliot to belong to a different country al- 

 together." 



The other day I received a collection of animals col- 

 lected by Dr. H. ten Kate in Timor, and among other 

 mammals he sent over a nearly full-grown male-specimen 

 of Felis megalotis in spirits, with the request to expedite 

 it to Dr. Max Weber in Amsterdam. Dr. ten Kate wrote 

 to me that it seems to be a very rare animal , and that 

 the Timorese call it meo-foeik {meo == cat and foeik =: 

 wild) , the Malay poes-oetan (poes =: cat and oetan = 

 wood). 



I think that now a second specimen from the same 

 island has been brought over, nobody will doubt whether 

 Felis megalotis really is a Felis-s-pecies from Timor. 



Anoa santeng Dubois. 



Under this name I exhibit a problematic mammal dis- 

 cussed by a friend of mine, who at present is in Java, 

 Kediri Residency , excavating and studying fossils. I should 

 not have fixed the attention of naturalists upon this mam- 

 mal , were it not that my friend , Dr. Dubois himself has 

 spoken about it — although in very short terms — in 

 the Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Iudië , 1891, 

 Deel LI, Afl. I, p. 96. He relates there »that among 



Notes from the Leyden ÜMuseum , "Vol. XIII. 



