ALLEN: mammalia: felid^.. 179 



Panthera Fitzinger, 1869, part. 



Oncoides Severtzow, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2), X, Sept. 1858, 386; as a 



subgenus of Felis\ includes Felis pardalis Linn., Felis macroiira 



Wied ( = /^ w iedi ScVmz, of earlier date), and Fe/is tigrina. Type, 



Felis pardalis Linn. Also of Trouessart, 1897, part, and of Lahille, 



1899. 

 Pardalis Severtzow, ibid., 391, alternative name for Oncoides. 

 Oncifelis Severtzow, ibid., subgenus of Felis, to include only Felis geof- 



froyi Gervais. 

 Pardalina Gray, P. Z. S., 1867, 266. Type and only species, Pardalina 



warwickii Qx2iy = Felis geoffroyi D'Orb. & Gerv., apud Sclater, P. 



Z. S., 1890, 796, and Elliot, P. Z. S., 1872, 203. 

 Pardalis Gray, P. Z. S., 1867, 270, as a subgenus of Felis ; includes F. 



pardalis Linn., Leopardiis griseus Gray, Felis melannrus Ball, and 



Leopardus pictns Gray. Type, Felis pardalis Linn. 

 MargayQx2iy, P. Z. S., 1867, 271; subgenus of Felis, to include Felis 



macroiira Wied { = F. iviedi Schinz), F. mitis F. Cuv., F. geoffroyi 



Gerv., F. colocola Molina. 

 Zibethailurus Lahille, Congr. cient. Lat. Amer., Ill, 1899, 178; includes 



only Felis pardalis Linn ; not Zibethailiirits Severtzow, type and only 



species, Felis viverrina Bennett. 

 The name Leopardus Gray was apparently first used by him in a paper 

 entitled "Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species 

 of Mammalia" (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. X, Dec, 1842, pp. 255- 

 267), in describing four new species of cats, two of which {Leopardus 

 griseus and L. pictns^ were from Central America, and two {L. ellioti, and 

 L. horsfieldi) from India. There is nothing in this conection to indicate 

 that the genus Leopardus was new, as is the case with ten other genera 

 described in the same paper. A few months later (List Spec. Mamm. in 

 Brit. Mus., 1843, pp. 40-44) he employed the name to cover a group of 

 twenty-four species, the first of which was Felis leopardus Schreber, and 

 this, bearing the same name as the genus, becomes, by rules widely 

 accepted, the type of the genus Leopardus. In subsequent papers 

 (mainly in 1867), he greatly restricted the genus by transferring from it 

 nearly all of the species, except the Felis leopardus group, to other genera, 

 including the four species originally associated with it in 1842, the two 

 Central American species being transferred to a section (or subgenus) Par- 



