348 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 99. 8. 1. 29. Original num- 

 ber 65. Collected 21st November, 189b, by Perry O. Simons. 

 Two specimens. 



Among tlie bewildering variations of the ocelot group this 

 forn), from the dry regions to the west of Gua3'aquil, stands 

 out by its small size, unridged skull, and pale colour. Its 

 white sides, from cheeks to liips, and white limbs are espe- 

 cially noticeable as compared with ordinary ocelots, in which 

 (apart from the grey northern form) there is always a strong 

 suffusion of buffy in the ground-colour of these parts. 



A topotype of Mearns's /vZ/s a'5'zt((ic>?-ta//s *, from Paramba, 

 northern coast-region of Ecuador, is quite like ordinaiy 

 Brazilian ocelots in all the characters that distinguisli 

 F. p. puscea from them. 



FeJis emilice, sp. n. 



F. gnttiiJa group. Coloration pale, as in tropical open- 

 country cats, such as those of Africa or India — quite unlike 

 other South-American cats. 



Size and essential characters as in F. guttula, the nape- 

 hairs similarly all directed backwards and the skull of the 

 same elongate shape f. Fur unusually short, close, and 

 harsh, the hairs on the withers only about 10 mm. in length, 

 and those of the hinder back 15-16 mm. ; the hair in 

 F. guttula is half as long again, and, as in all other South- 

 American spotted cats, of quite a different texture. General 

 colour pale, suggesting one of the })ale African cats of the 

 i'^ ocr^a^a group or the Indian F. 07'nata\. Ground-colour 

 on nape and fore back near " cinnamon-bufF" of Ridgway, 

 elsewliere "pale buff.'*' Markings csst-ntially as in Y^'.^M^^/Zaj 

 but narrower and more sharply delined; the four main lines 

 down the nape narrow (4 mm.), vivid black, sharply con- 

 trasted with the ground-colour between them ; a still nar- 

 rower (1-2 mm.) median line also present. Median dorsal 

 area with the usual linear spots, all very sharply defined. 

 Shoulders and flanks with suljciicular ring-.sha})ed spots, 

 whose centres are cinnamon-buff, like the ground-colour of 

 the back. Ground-colour of under surface creamy white, 

 more bufTy on the throat, the hairs practically white to their 

 bases, in marked distinction to those of F. yuttula, which are 



* Proc. I'.S. Niit. Mils. .\.\v. p. L>l() (VM-I). 



t t:f. Ann. ^: Miifr. Nat. J list. (7) xii. p. L'.'lt (1903) 



\ liWwt, Mon. Folida', j)l. xx.vii. (lHs;')j. 



