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part of the sides with black round spots; the tail black, spotted, and 
with the tip black; belly yellowish white.”—/erdon. 
S1zE.—-Head and body, 18 to 24 inches; tail, 14 to 16. 
This beautiful little cat is almost a miniature of the clouded panther, 
and Blyth confuses the Malayan name of the latter, and applies it to this 
species, which probably arose from his quoting as a synonym, & dardit, 
which, however, in the same paper he repudiates, as the description of the 
Felis marmorata. 
size of #. diardii clearly proved a much larger animal. This is the type of 
Grey’s genus Cafolynx, the other species in India being J charltoni. The 
genus is peculiar from the resemblance of the nasal bones to those of the 
lynx, and from the complete or nearly complete bony orbit; the skull 
differs, however, greatly from the wverriceps form, being much more 
spherical with very short nasal bones. There is an admirable 
illustration in De Blainville’s ‘Ostéographie’ of it under the name of 
fF. longicaudata. Very little is known as yet of the habits of this cat. 
No. 208. FELIS BENGALENSIS. 
The Leopard-Cat ( Jerdon’s No. 110). 
Native Names.—&un Beral, Bengali; Jungli Bilao, Chhita Bilao, 
Hindi; Zheet-kyoung in Arakan ; Lhan-rahn-manjur, Mahrathi ; Wagati, 
Mahratti of the Ghats. 
Hasirat.—tIndia generally, in hilly parts; Assam, Burmah, and the 
Malay countries: also Ceylon. 
DeEscripTion.About the size of the domestic cat, but with extremely 
