On }[ammah J 1-0)11 the Serro do Mar of Parana. 59 



without them. Nor are the accessory hoofs any smaller than 

 usual. The skull of C. Hecki is not described. 



With C. Hecl-i it differs from all other members of the 

 group by the extension of the rufous of the limbs on to the 

 thii'hs and flanks. 



XII, — On Mauimals from the Serra do Mar of Para^id, collected 

 by Mr. Al f house Uohert. By Oldfield ThOMAS, F.R.S. 



After making the collection on the Rio Jordao, Minas, of 

 which an account was given in the last number of tiie 'Annals,' 

 Mr. Robert proceeded, via Sao Paulo, ISantoSj and Paranagua, 

 to a place called Ro(ja Nova, situated at an altitude of about 

 1000 metres (" 930 to 1150 m.") in the Serro do Mar of the 

 Province of Parana, and on the railway between Paranagua 

 and Curitiba. 



Here he has again made a most admirable and valuable 

 collection, in spite of the difficulties due to the constant 

 torrential rains of the wet season. 



A large number of the present species appear to be refer- 

 able to forms obtained and described by Hensel in his 

 classical paper on the mammals of Rio Grande do Sul *, a 

 region also worked later by Dr. von Iliering. Good series of 

 the latter's specimens are in the British Museum, some 

 received direct from him and others through Dr. Leche, of 

 Stockholm, who wrote an account of the Muridte in 1886 f. 



The beautiful sjiecimens now obtained by Mr. Robert 

 further illustrate the mammalogy of this interesting region. 



The collection contains examples of eighteen species, of 

 which I have found it necessary to describe two as new. 



Besides the mammals collected at 1000 metres at RoQa 

 Nova, Mr. Robert has also sent home examples of Nycti- 

 nomus brasiliensi'Sf Lonchoglossa caudifera^ Artibeus lituratus, 

 and Hemiderma persjncillatum from Morretes, close to Paran- 

 agua, at an altitude of only 10 metres above the sea. 



1. Felis sp. 



Two specimens. 



Spotted tiger-cats of the F. macrura group. The small 

 specimen is a raelano, but shows indication of the normal 

 spotted condition. 



* Abh. Ak. Berl. 1872, p. 1. 

 t Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 687 0887). 



