Classification of existing Felide. 343 
and two-rooted, with a conical pointed crown, carrying a 
small anterior cusp. The first premolar of the lower jaw 
has an almost steeple-shaped crown higher than its basal 
length and than the apex of the succeeding tooth, and 
blocking the space between the first and second upper 
premolars ; and the lower canines, when the jaw is closed, 
project considerably above the lower edge of the anterior 
nares, their tips being approximately on a level with the 
summit of the coronoid process. 
The external characters of this species are > known to me 
only from skins, and I am unable to give any particulars 
regarding the feet, rhinarium, aud other points. 
Genus Nroretis, Gray. 
Neofelis, Gray, 1867, p. 265; type nebulosa (= macrocelis). 
One species hitherto admitted with several subspecies, 
possibly deserving higher rank. 
Distr. Kastern Himalayas to Borneo, 
Large cats with head, body, and tail long and the legs 
short ; with ears rounded and rhinarium and feet scarcely 
differing from those of Panthera. 
Skull recalling in general features that of a small example 
of Panthera pardus, especially in the shortness and wide 
separation of the frontal and malar postorbital processes, the 
inferiorly attenuated maxilla, the straightness of its nasal 
edge, the width and exposure of the nasals from the lateral 
aspect, the inclination of the nares, relative proportions of 
the mandibular teeth, etc., but differing in the greater poste- 
rior width of the nasals, the thicker, more salient inferior 
edge of the orbit, carrying a distinct preorbital thickening, 
the evenly ovate antero-lateral border of the mesopterygoid 
fossa and the special modifications of the jaws, the mandible 
being greatly elevated anteriorly, with the symphysial region 
nearly vertical, flat in its upper two-thirds and abruptly 
curved backwards below, the incisive border being raised 
high above the external edge of the alveolus of the lower 
canine—as a result of which modifications the upper jaw is 
thrust up so that when the mouth is closed the alveolar lines 
of the maxillary and mandibular cheek-teeth are widely 
divergent in front, leaving a deep and long space behind the 
canines, with concomitant reduction or suppression of the 
first upper premolar and enormous elongation of the upper 
canine. 
The occipital area is remarkably triangular and pointed 
