FELIS PARDOIDES. 169 
CARNIVORA. FELID. 
Left lower sectorial tooth of Felis pardoides: a, view from the inside ; 4, view from 
the outside. Red Crag. 
FELIS PARDOIDES. Owen. 
Tue discovery of the fossil indicative of the present 
species is due to Mr. Wm. Colchester of Ipswich, who 
pointed out to Mr. Lyell, in June 1839, in his collection of 
fossil teeth from the Red Crag of Newbourn near Wood- 
bridge, one tooth which differed greatly from the rest, and 
which they both suspected to belong to a carnivorous 
Mammal. The tooth being submitted to my inspection, I 
found, on comparison, that it agreed in size and shape with 
the posterior or sectorial molar of the left side of the lower 
jaw of the Leopard (Felis lcopardus, Linn.) ; affording, if 
not proof of specific identity,—which, from the close corre- 
spondence in every character, save size, that pervades the 
dental formula of the different species of Felis, cannot be 
affirmed on the evidence of a single tooth,—at least sufficient 
indication that a feline animal as large as a Leopard 
existed at the geological epoch indicated by the forma- 
tion in which it was found. The tooth in question (jig. 
66), 1s imperfect : the enamelled crown is preserved, but 
the base has lost the fangs, and has the appearance of 
having been worn and polished after the fangs had been 
broken short off. The two compressed pointed lobes of the 
crown are more nearly equal in size than in the Felis pardus. 
