Mr. H. Schwann on Felis ocreata. 421 



outwards from the middle of the antero-iuternal peninsula 

 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 

 hitherto 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 55 ; zygomatic breadth 39 ; nasals, length 

 diagonally 31, greatest breadth 18 ; interorbital breadth 20; 

 diastema 23 ; breadth of palatal bridge 7 ; palatal foramina 

 21x9. 



Bab. (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. salcv, from 

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



Probably L. 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 Audongo. 



XLIX. — On Felis ocreata, better knoion as Felis caligata, and 

 its Subsp)ecies. By Harold Schwann. 



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

 to Discover the Source of the Nile'' t, 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. Cuhn published at Leipzig a German 

 translation of the ' Travels/ with a zoological appendix by 

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

 Felis ocreata % to Bruce' s specimen. 



F. ocreata therefore stands as being the earliest technical 



name of the species. 



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



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



\ Anh. Bruce Reisen, Gmel. p. 27 (1791). 



Ann. cf- Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xiii. 29 



