282 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
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EXTINCT CATS AND CIVETS. 
I. FAMILY FELID! (szrd, p. 1). 
I, GENUS FELIS (szgra, p. 26). 
Reference having already been made to such existing species 
as have been discovered in a fossil state, it will suffice here to 
allude to some of the more important extinct representatives 
of the genus. The earliest known True Cats appear to be the 
small Fes media and F. pygmaa, from the Middle Miocene 
strata of Sansan, in the Department of Gers, France, with which 
Ff. turnauensis, from the corresponding strata of Styria, may 
prove to be identical. From the Lower Pliocene beds of Darm- 
stadt, Attica, and Persia, species have been described under 
the names of / antediluviana, F. prisca, F. liodon, and F. attica; 
the latter being known by an entire skull, much resembling 
that of the Wild Cat, but with more powerful teeth. The 
Upper Pliocene strata of the Auvergne and the Val d’Arno 
have likewise yielded remains of several species, such as /. arver- 
nensis, F. brevirostris, F. issiodorensis, and F. pardinensis ; while 
in the Pliocene of Montpellier we have / christolt, resembling 
a Lynx in size. In the Pliocene strata of the Siwalik Hills of 
Northern India the great #. cristata, which was fully as large 
asa Tiger, appears to show characters intermediate between 
that species and the Jaguar; while the same deposits have also 
yielded remains of a small species apparently allied to the 
living / dengalensis. In the Pliocene of the United States 
there occur remains of two species of the size of the Lion 
known as ¥. afrox and F: augusta ; while from the Pleistocene 
of Argentina certain Cats more or less nearly allied to the Jaguar 
and other existing South American species have been named. 
II. GENUS CYNASLURUS (supra, p. 201). 
The only fossil species referred to the same genus as the 
Hunting-Leopard is one from the Siwalik Hills described as 
C. brachygnathus. Unfortunately this is known only by the 
