52 Dr. J E. Gray on the Smaller 



We received from the Zoological Society along witli the 

 specimen of Felis jmrdinoides the skull belonging to it, which 

 is described in the 'Proceedings ' and 'Catalogue.' This skull 

 has a sloping forehead and a well-developed face, quite difterent 

 from tlie skull of Pardalina Warivickii, more like the skull 

 of an ocelot, showing that it has no relation whatever to the 

 genus Pardalina. It is true that it shows the animal is not 

 aged ; but the skull is jDcrfectly developed, and is evidently 

 that of a fully grown animal, and therefore does not justify 

 Mr. Elliot's assertion that the " typical specimen is not an 

 adult animal." 



It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Elliot did not take the 

 trouble to compare the two skulls in the Museum before he 

 made such a random assertion as that F. pardinoides is the 

 same as F. Geoffroyi. 



Pardalina Wariciclcii and the figure of Felis guigna have 

 an immense number of small, rather unequal-sized, moderately 

 closely placed solid black spots on the upper part of the body ; 

 those near the centre of the back are smaller, but not united 

 into lines : and P. Warioickii has larger spots on the under- 

 side of the body, which are largest in the central line ; these, 

 according to the description and figures, are entirely wanting 

 in Felis guigna. The tails are cylindrical and blunt at the 

 end. 



Felis ijardiyioides^ on the contrary, has large-sized s}x»ts 

 of a squarish form, with a pale centre, placed in about four 

 series, more or less interrupted or irregular, on each side of 

 the body ; the vertebral line is marked Avith a narrow con- 

 tinuous line, which is forked, and more or less continued 

 in front between the shoulders, and with a series of spots on 

 each side of it, which are much smaller than those on the sides 

 of the body ; the tail is rather thick, the hinder half tapering 

 to a point. The spot with the pale centre sometimes shows a 

 likeness to the "rose " (that is to say, the spot formed of a 

 ring of small spots with a pale centre) found in the American 

 cats ; hence the name qI ixirdinoides. There is notliing of this 

 kind to be seen in P. Waricickii, where the small spots are all 

 equally separated. 



X. — Xotes on the Smaller Sj)offed Cats of Asia and its 

 Islands. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



Mr. Blyth, in his paper on the Asiatic species of the genus 

 Felis (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 184) regards Felis nipalensis and F. 



