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tooth and the unusually great development of its internal 

 tubercle. 



It seems presumptuous to add a supposed new cat in the 

 Felis pardalis group, but the present form differs so markedly 

 from any of those hitherto described that there seems to be 

 no other reasonable alternative. Most of the names given to 

 members of this group rest on very unsatisfactory descrip- 

 tions based on menagerie or other specimens from unknown 

 localities. The present species is too large to belong to the 

 F. pardinoides group, and is too deeply colored and otherwise 

 too different to be referred to any of the recently recognized 

 forms of the F. pardalis group. Its Colombian neighbor on 

 the north is a pale form, with the ground color above pale 

 fulvous gray, rather brighter on the anterior half of the body 

 than posteriorly, fading out to buffy grayish white on the 

 sides, and the black stripes and blotches are very narrow, en- 

 close large areas of the ground color, and occupy only a rela- 

 tively small portion of the dorsal surface. It is also much 

 smaller, the total length of the skull being 117 mm. and the 

 zygomatic breadth 76. It is, however, much larger than any 

 member of the F. pardinoides group, and also has the nape 

 hairs reversed, or directed forward. Being apparently un- 

 described it may be called Felis sanct&marta -, as described 

 below. 



Felis sanctaemartae, sp. nov. 



Type, No. 14857, $ ad., Bonda, Santa Marta district, Colombia, 

 March 25, 1899; coll. Herbert H. Smith. 



Nape hairs reversed (directed forward). Ground color of tipper 

 parts pale grayish fulvous, stronger on head, neck, and shoulders, 

 fading to much paler posteriorly, and to grayish white on the flanks r 

 latter elongate and enclosing rather broad patches of pale fulvous, 

 between the markings; black stripes and blotches very narrow, the 

 with the intervening spaces on the sides grayish white; median nape 

 stripe a narrow broken line of black, the outer stripes (two on each 

 side) broad and well denned; the median black dorsal stripe is inter- 

 rupted and discontinuous except for about 175 mm. along the middle 

 region of the back; black head stripes broken posteriorly into small 

 transverse blotches; cheek and throat stripes as usual but very nar- 

 row; ventral surface and inside of limbs white, spotted with black; 



