Mr. II. Scliwann on Felis ocreata. 421 



outwards from the middle of the antero-iiiternal peuiusuhi 

 towards the centre of the main dentine area of the tooth, 

 dying away about halfway across to the hinder margin. This 

 additional complexity of the incisive section has not been 

 liitherto noticed in any hare. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — 



Head and body 390 mm. ; tail 90; hind foot 115 ; ear 115. 



Skull : back of parietals to tip of nasals 78 ; basilar suture 

 to henselion 65] zygomatic breadth 39; nasals, lengtli 

 diagonally 34, greatest breadth 18; interorbital breadth 23; 

 diastema 23; breadth of palatal bridge 7 ; palatal foramina 

 21x9. 



Hab. (of type). Ambaca. Alt. 800 m. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 4. 4. 9. 140. Original 

 number 7. Collected 29th April, 1903, 



The Angolan hare was referred by Prof. B:)cage to Lepus 

 ochropus, Wagn., but that is the yellow-naped High Veldt 

 representative of L. capensis^. Jentink^s L. sake, from 

 Mossamedes, is a far paler form, with much shorter tail. 



Probably //. angolensis is most nearly allied to the Zambe- 

 sian L. Whytei, but differs from that as from all other species 

 by the unusual complexity of its upper incisors. 



46. Procavia Bocagei, Gray. 

 $ . 51 (imm.). Pungo Andongo. 



XLIX. — On Felis ocreata, better known a.s Felis caligata, mid 

 its Subspecies. By Harold Schwann. 



The first account of this cat appears in Bruce's ' Travels 

 to Discover the Source of the Nile ' f, under the name of the 

 " Booted Lynx,^^ and, with the exception of the exaggeration 

 of the ear-tufts in the plate, appears to be a very accurate 

 description. 



In 1791 E. W. Culm published at Leipzig a German 

 translation of the ' Travels,^ with a zoological a])pendix by 

 J. F. Gmelin, where the latter distinctly gives the name of 

 Felis ocreata t to Bruce's specimen. 



F. ocreata therefore stands as being the earliest technical 

 name of the species. 



* Cf. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xii. p. 344 (1903). 



t Vol. V. p. 146 (1790). 



I Anh. Bruce Reiseu, Gmel. p. 27 (1791). 



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