Classification of existing Felide. 339 
crest is better developed, making an elongated pterygoid 
fussa. The bulla has a low partition. 
The two best-known species of the genus are the Indian 
cats known as bengalensis * and rubiginosus, which are very 
distinct, rubiginosus being characterized by exceedingly thin 
nasals, nearly vertical nares and premaxillz, and superiorly 
expanded maxille, the temporal ridges remain separated, 
forming a wide lyriform area, the postorbital processes fuse 
earlier, and the first upper premolar is much more fre- 
quently absent than in dengalensis. In the structure of 
the muzzle and the arrested muscular development of the 
cranium rubiginosus recalls some of the small South-American 
cats, pardinoides and ? guigna, but differs therefrom in certain 
characters enumerated below (p. 347). 
Other known forms that certainly, or probably, fall under 
Prionailurus have been named javensis, sumatranus, herschelii, 
chinensis, microtis, and scripta. 
Genus Parporrtis, Severtz. 
Pardofelis, Severtzow, 1858, p. 387 ; type marmorata, Martin. 
Catolynx, Gray, 1867, p. 267; type marmorata (nec Catolynx, 
Severtzow). 
Two species, P. marmorata and P. badia. 
Disir. East Indies from the Himalayas to Borneo. 
Small long-tailed, short-headed cats with rounded ears, 
distinguishable from Prionailurus and related Oriental genera 
by having the skull higher and more rounded, with the 
mesopterygoid fossa lanceolate in front and provided with 
thickened margins or a better developed external crest. 
The two species marmorata and badia referred to this 
genus have not, I believe, been previously affiliated. Despite 
the difference between them in the matter of coloration, 
their kinship is indicated by cranial characters. The struc- 
ture of the feet and the form of the rhinarium are unknown 
to me. Of the two, P. badia seems to be most nearly 
related to Prionailurus. 
* Based upon a specimen that swam on board a ship in Calcutta. The 
name has been fixed by tradition to the species that bears it; and since 
the description, so far as it goes, fits the species and most certainly does 
not apply to any domesticated cat of the Felis catus or torquatus types, 
I see no reason for discarding the term, 
