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the larynx, which is not held close up to the base of 
the skull. Feet like those of the Feline, 
Genus Panthera for leo, tigris, pardus, onca. 
»  Uncia for uncia. 
The Genera of the Subfamily Feline. 
Genus Fetis, Linn. 
Felis, Linn., 1758; type catus, Linn. (domestic cat). 
Catus, Fitz., 1855, p. 265 ; type catus, Linn. 
Catolynz, Severtzow, 1858, p. 385 ; type catus, Linn. 
Otailurus, Severtzow, 1858, p. 888; type megalotis, Mill. (domestic 
cat from Timor). 
Chaus, Gray, 1843, pp. 44-45 ; type chaus, Guld. (=/ydicus, Gray). 
Distr. Central and Southern Europe; South Asia to 
Burma; Africa apart from the western forested area. 
Very small to medium-sized cats with long (ocreata) or 
moderately long (chaus) tails, usually short broad heads, 
reduced rhinarium, large, pointed, sometimes pencilled ears, 
never showing the white spot, vertically contracted ocular 
pupil and narrow paws with comparatively poorly developed 
claw-sheaths and moderately extensive emarginate webs. 
Miller’s full description * of the skull of F. silvestris and 
his comparison of the skull of F. ocreata (sarda) with it 
embody most of the characters of the typical species of this 
genus and make a repetition of the facts unnecessary. 
The species may be referred to three categories :— 
(1) Medium-sized cats from Europe, S8.W. Asia, and 
Africa, e.g. F. silvestris, ocreata, ornata, and caudata, which 
are grouped closely round the typical form of the genus, 
J’, catus, and the other domesticated breed, F. torquata +. 
(2) Larger species ranging from Burma, through India, 
parts of Central Asia to South Africa, e. g. F. chaus 
(subspecies furax etc.) and F. shawiana, with the skull 
longer, narrower, less arched, and the zygomata less salient 
than in the typical forms. These constitute the genus 
Chaus of Gray, defined by the comparative shortness of the 
tail. 
(3) The very small South-African species F. nigripes, 
which in many of its cranial characters is like a dwarfed form 
* Cat. Mamm. Centr. Europe, pp. 458-468 (1912). : 
+ Miller admits three species of European cats, namely, F. silvestris, 
F. sarda, and F. agrius. F. sarda, however, appears to me to be at most 
a subspecies of F’. ocreata, and there is no evidence that J. agrius, trom 
Crete, was based upon anything but feral examples of the striped 
domestic cat (see P. Z. S. 1907, pp. 143-168). 
