various South- American Mumniah. 347 



c. 31autle and arms glossy bhickisli brown. 



L. purillus, sp. n. 



Dimeusiona of the type (iu tlie flesh) : — Head aud body 

 180 mm. ; tail :?95 ; hind foot 00. 



Hub. Rio Xapiiry, Upper Rio Acre, Upper Puriis. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 14. '2. 21. 1. Original num- 

 ber 2. 4. Presented by the authorities of the Goeldi Museum, 

 Para. 



FeJis pardalis puscea, subsp. n. 



A small pale ocelot, from the soutlieni coast-iegiou of 

 Kciiudor. 



Size decidedly less than in most ocelots. Fur short and 

 fine, hairs of back about 13 mm. in length j hairs from 

 withers to occiput reversed forwards as usual. General 

 ground-colour |>ale, that of the dorsal area and the centres of 

 the lateral rings buffj (near "warm buff"), finely ticked 

 with black, that of the sides white, nearly pure white, or at 

 least greyisli white, while it is more or less buffy in oceloLs 

 generally ; ground-colour of under surface white throughout. 

 Markings everywhere black, sharply defined, the spots and 

 rings small, the characteristic elongate markings of the sides 

 quite broken up into subcircular rings in one specimen and 

 nearly so in the other. Cheeks white, with black markings, 

 tlie buffy reduced to a narrow band below the lower white 

 eye-stripe. Limbs clear greyish white, hands and feet finely 

 spotted to the digits. Tail white and black, a little buffy 

 only present proximally above. 



Skull small, smooth, rounded, little ridged ; without 

 sagittal crest except i)Osteriorly ; tlie teni[)oral crests about 

 half an inch apart. Intertemjjoral constriction not strongly 

 pinched in. 13ullae large, rounded, more inflated than in tlie 

 other ocelots available, but this character is so variable in tlie 

 larger cats, notably in tho pumas, that little importance can 

 be attached to it. 



Dimensions of two male specimens (the first the type) : — 



Head and body 725, 715 mm.; tail 30U, 330; hnid foot 

 150, 145 ; ear 50, GO. 



iSkull : greatest length 132, 124 ; condylo-basal length 

 121, IIU ; zygomatic breadth 81, bO; interorbital breadtii 

 2G, 24; intertemporal breadth 32"3, 34 ; breadth of brain- 

 case 4b, 50 ; mastoid breadth 53, 52*5 ; palatal length 51, 49 ; 

 length of/ 10, 9-7, / IG, 15 6. 



Hub. Guaya.'^, coast-region of Ecuador. Type from 

 Chongon, 15 miles \V. of Uuayafiuil. Alt. GO m. 



