FELIS. 453 
nasals, 24; palatal length, 33; bulle, 18x12; length of upper tooth 
row from front of canine, 30; length of upper carnassial, 12.5; length 
of lower carnassial, 9.7; length of mandible, 60; height of condyle, 13; 
at coronoid process, 27. 
461. eyra (Felis), Fisch., Zoogn., 1814, p. 228. Elliot, Mon. Felide, 
pl. xiv; Id. Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 295. 
THE Eyra. Apache, Onza in Mexico. 
Type locality. Paraguay. 
Geogr. Distr. Brownsville, Texas, south to Paraguay, east of the 
Andes. 
Genl. Char. Body long and slender; legs short; tail very long. 
Color. Rich brownish red; darkest on the back, lightest on belly; 
tail same color. 
Measurements. Total length, 670; tail vertebre, 230. 
a.—apache (Felis), Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIv, 1901, p. I 
eyra. Baird, Rep. U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., Mamm., 18 
p.-88, pl. xm, fig-~1. 
THE TAMAULIPAS EYRA. 
Type locality. Rio Grande del Norte, State of Tamaulipas, 
Mexico. 
Genl. Char. ‘‘Size of common house cat; body long and slender; 
_ head small; ears short, without tufts; tail long. Skull: no frontal 
fossa; marked lateral constriction of the audital bulle; posterior 
narial fossa narrow; teeth small. 
Color. Entirely rufous, including tail; no spots visible. 
Measurements. Skull: ‘“‘basilar length of Hensel, 76; zygomatic 
breadth, 60; least interorbital breadth, 19; intertemporal breadth, 32; 
breadth of braincase above auditory meatus, 41; palate, length from 
henselion to posterior edge, excluding median notch, 32.2; greatest 
diameter of orbit, 26; greatest length of nasal bone, 20; breadth of 
nasal bones opposite end of nasal processes of frontals, 8.5; anterior 
narial orifice, 12X11; breadth of jugal, 7; audital bulla, 18x10; 
breadth between outer corners of carnassials, 33; breadth of posterior 
narial fossa, 12; front of upper canine to back of carnassial, 25; 
length of upper carnassial, 11; length of lower carnassial, 8.8.”’ 
(Mearns, 1. c.) 
50. 
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462. fossata (Felis), Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xIv, 1901, p. 150. 
YucaTan EyRA. 
Type locality. Merida, Yucatan. 
Genl. Char. Skull alone known. ‘Skull narrow, its greatest 
diameters, 91X60 mm.; convex aa flattened supraorbit- 
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