1904.] Allen, Mammals from Tropical America. 7 l 



skull, an adult female, Boqueron, Jan. 6. This specimen 

 agrees well with Dr. Merriam's description of the type, from 

 Boquete. The sides are bright reddish fulvous; the median 

 dorsal region is much darker or dark reddish chestnut as 

 is also the dorsal area of the tail ; the tail darkens apically, so 

 that the apical half is decidedly blackish, the tip being wholly 

 black for the terminal two inches. The inguinal region is pure 

 white, a small pectoral area whitish, and the intervening 

 region is like the flanks but much paler. Fur between toe 

 pads black; ears almost wholly black, the usual lighter areas 

 being brownish black and the rest deep black. 



31. Felis mearnsi, nom. nov. 



Felis costaricensis MEARNS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 245, Sept. 

 17, 1902. Talamanca, Costa Rica. Not Felis bangsi costaricensis 

 Merriam, Dec. n, 1901. 



One specimen, young male, skin and skull, Boqueron, Aug. 

 28. 



32. Felis panamensis, sp. nov. 



Type, No. 14946, ? (young adult), Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama, 

 Oct. 30; J. H. Batty. 



General color above dusky gray, the dorsal region posteriorly, tail, 

 inner surface of limbs and feet strongly blackish; sides and front of 

 limbs lighter, the hairs broadly tipped with whitish, giving a dark gray 

 effect; whole head, including ears, nape, and sides of neck, much 

 lighter than body, rusty brownish gray varied minutely with black; 

 top of shoulders and posterior third of the median dorsal region deep 

 black, sparsely and irregularly varied with whitish tipped hairs; tail 

 black above, sides and undersurface lighter, strongly varied with whit- 

 ish gray hairs and gray-brown underfur; general color of ventral sur- 

 face dark gray, strongly blackish on the chest; fore neck and throat 

 rusty brown, varied slightly with dusky. 



Measurements. Total length, 985; head and body, 595; tail ver- 

 tebras, 390; hind foot (in dry skin), 128; ear, 40. Skull, total length, 

 96; basal length of Hensel, 80; zygomatic breadth, 62; least interor- 

 bital breadth, 15.5; least postorbital breadth, 32; width of braincase, 

 46; length of nasals, 24; width of nasals at front border, 12; do. at 

 end of frontals, 5.3; length of palate, 33; audital bulla, 18x12; 

 breadth at posterior end of carnassials, 37 ; upper toothrow from front 

 of canine, 30; length of upper carnassials, 12.5; length of lower car- 

 nassial, 9.7 ; length of lower jaw (front base of incisors to end of angu- 

 lar process), 60; height at condyle, 13; do. at coronoid, 27. 



