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Three \ eavs later 'I'homas (') added a fîfth siibspecies : 

 /.ijrse/!/ hxnn Renibe, « Coiii^o district ot N. Aiioola ». 



Ail thèse subspecies hâve been based on the colour pattern of 

 skins and the différent degree of spottedness, characters which 

 are rather unstable amongst cats, and therefore of nncertain vaine 

 especiallv when the material is not verv large, and tliis does not 

 appear to hâve been the case. Pocock mentions seven spécimens 

 in ail, and Thomas has had one skin of his new subspecies. 



The material o'î servalina, which I hâve had the opportunity of 

 examining is also not great, but it consists of lO spécimens repre- 

 senting dift'erent types of variation. 



l'ive ot thèse spécimens belong to the Congo Muséum at Ter- 

 vueren, and iive to the R. Nat. Hist. Muséum, Stockholm. 



The former mav according to the subdivision quoted be named 

 in the foUowing wav ; 



I pantasticta : n" itgS, from BukauKi, Katanga. 



I pantasticta : from Kisantu, Lower Congo. 



1 liposticta : (transitional to Larscsii) from Kisantu, I.ower 

 Congo. 



1 Larscui : n" 074, from Lukiabourg, Kasai district, South ot 

 Kasai river. 



! La.'scjii : n' 2661, from Mpe, district of I^ake Leopold II. 



The latter mav in a similar wav be determined as lollow : 



I pantiisticta : trom Mukimbungu, Lower Congo. 



! pai/tast/cta (') ? : from Kasongo, Eastern Congo. 



I iioliotriclia : from Kasongo, Eastern Congo. 



1 liposticta : from Lower Congo. 



I Larscui : (somewhat approaching liposticta) irom Bangweolo. 



(■) A»n. Miii;. .V. //.. (8) V, p. or, itjro. 



(^) Note quile so strongly soptied as Ihe lypical pnniaf.licia , but nch vrliuw iiiiich 

 Contrasting with \\\e grcvisli poliotrichn. 



