ALLEN: mammalia: felid^. i8i 



over the median dorsal region, lighter gray and less yellowish on the 

 sides, passing into white on the ventral surface, everywhere irregularly 

 spotted or streaked with black ; sides of nose, edge of upper lip, a narrow 

 streak below the eyes and a broader one above the eyes, cheeks and chin 

 white or yellowish white ; top of nose and front of head to posterior can- 

 thus of eyes grizzled yellowish gray and black ; a narrow streak from 

 nose to eye, small spot over the eye, three narrow streaks on sides of 

 nose in the mystacial region, a streak beneath the eye, joining a broader 

 streak behind the eye running along the side of the face, and another 

 below this across the cheek and joining a broad transverse bar across the 

 throat black ; five narrow black stripes continued from top of head over the 

 top of neck to the shoulders with an additional stripe on each side on the 

 neck ; area of the back from shoulders to tail, more or less blended, and giv- 

 ing a prevailing blackish tint to the whole median dorsal region; on each 

 side of the median area the black spots are more scattered, variable in 

 size and in outline from circular to elliptical, sometimes merging to form 

 short stripes ; on the flanks, limbs and ventral surface the spots are more 

 scattered and larger, and on the ventral surface sharply contrast with the 

 white ground color ; palms and soles dark blackish brown ; ears externally 

 black with a broad central patch grayish white ; tail with the basal two 

 thirds heavily spotted and half-ringed with black, the apical third ringed 

 and tipped with black, the last four or five rings completely encircling the 

 tail. 



Another specimen (J. B. Hatcher, mouth of Santa Cruz River) is prac- 

 tically the same in the general tone of the ground color, but the spots on 

 the sides of the body are smaller, more uniformly circular and more 

 numerous, and the stripes running from head to shoulders are less regular 

 and continuous, and the middle of the dorsal region has the black spots 

 and streaks less massed, giving the effect of much less black. 



Measuremoits. — No. 16696, cT, a flat skin gives the following dimen- 

 sions, which are, of course, only approximate : Head and body, 800 mm. ; 

 tail vertebrae, 360 ; tip to tip of outstretched fore limbs, 690 ; ear from 

 crown, 50. Skull : Total length, 108 ; basal length, 98 ; palatal length, 39 ; 

 length of nasals, 26.5; breadth of nasals, anterior, 14, posterior, 5.5; 

 zygomatic breadth, 73 ; mastoid breadth, 44.3 ; postorbital breadth, 28 ; 

 greatest breadth of brain-case, 45 ; breadth at base of canines, 28 ; upper 

 toothrow (molar-premolar series), 24; length of p.^, 13.2; breadth at 



