314 'Mv.R.l.Vococli on the 



above, and the partition of the bulla is low, as in. other 

 forest-species. 



This genus canuot be confused with any of the smaller 

 Oriental, African, or American genera of Felidse. Perhaps 

 Pardofelis is its nearest ally. By Severtzow it was associated 

 with Uncia, by Trouessart it was placed with serval, par- 

 dalis, and others in Zibethailurus. From Panthera pardus, 

 with which it has been compared above, it differs in the 

 hvoid bone etc. 



Genus Leopardus, Gray. 



LeopardiiJ^, Gray, 1842, p. 260; type f/riseux, Gray { = ? pardalis, 



Liuu.) *. 

 Oncoides, Severtzow, 1858, p. .386 ; type pardalis. 

 Pardalis, Gray, 1867, p. 270; ty^e jjardalis. 



Distr. From the Souoran district of North America 

 southwards throughout the forested districts of South 

 America. 



An uncertain number of species or subspecies referable 

 to two groups typified respectively by pardalis and iciedii 

 (jnacrura) . 



Moderately large or medium-sized cats, with the ears 

 small, rounded, and white-spotted; the rhinarium promi- 

 nent and naked above, and with widely separated nostrils ; 

 feet fully webbed and .with well-developed claw-sheaths 

 concealing the tips of the retracted claws ; hair on the 

 neck upright or reversed in direction of growth in the 

 adult. 



Skull variable in size and shape, and in the typical form 

 of Leopardus most like that of Prufelis of all the genera of 

 the Old World, but differing in the sum of a number of 

 characters. The nasals, though broad in front, are narrower 

 posteriorly and fit like a wedge between the maxillje, whicii 

 are differently shaped above from those of Profelis, being 

 broader and more truncated at the summit, the sutuie 

 between them and the nasal processes of the frontal inclining 

 more obliquely inwards and forwards from the dorsal aspect 



* Gray originally included four species in this genus, namely, griseus, 

 pictus, elUoti, and horsfieldi, but subsequently assigned jriscus and putus 

 to Pardalis, eiUoti to Viverriceps, ignored hor^Jietdi, and applied Leo- 

 pardus to pardus and ojica. Since Leopardus must unfortunately stand 

 for one of the four species first included under it, I selected griseus, 

 perhaps a subspecies of lyardalis, as the type (Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (,8) xviii. p. 316, 1906). 



