760 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON VARIOUS FELID^E. [Dec. 5, 



Upper parts rich brown-red ; ears and tip of tail black ; markings 

 on the face bnff, edged with black ; underparts much paler than the 

 upper, inside of the fore legs whitish buff, crossed with several dusky- 

 bars ; upper lip pale buff, with three parallel rows of black dots ; 

 lower lip and chin white ; underpart of tail white. 



Hab. Nepal, Sumatra, Borneo. 



In 1863 Mr. Blyth, in his list of the Asiatic species of the genus 

 Felts, published in the ' Proceedings' of the Zoological Society, sepa- 

 rated as F. jerdoni a small Cat, habitat unknown, but supposed to be 

 the peninsula of India, resembling in size the F. rubiyinosa, and in 

 markings the F. benyalensis of Desm. By the kindness of Mr. 



E. W. H. Holdsworth, I have been put in possession of two Cats 

 collected by him at Aripo, north-west Ceylon, one of which is typical 



F. rubiginosa, and the other rather intermediate between that spe- 

 cies and F. jerdoni. This would prove that Mr. Blyth's species is 

 only a dark form of F. rubiginosa — a fact not to be wondered at, 

 as dark and light varieties among the species of Felis are of very 

 common occurrence. I should state that Mr. Blyth has seen the 

 specimens here alluded to, and agrees with me that his F. jerdoni 

 must now be considered the same as F. rubiginosa. 



The synonymy of the species will be somewhat as follows : — 



Felis rubiginosa. 



Felis rubiginosa, I. Geoff. Voy. Belanger, Zool. p. 1-10, pi. 6; 

 Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 185. 



Viverriceps rubiginosa, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 269 ; 

 id. Cat. Cam. Mamm. 1869, p. 18. 



Felis jerdoni, Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 185; J. E. Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 274, 401. 



Leopardus sumatranus, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. p. 43. 



The dark specimen from Ceylon, although apparently full-grown, 

 is still quite young, the teeth being still those of a kitten. 



The remaining species to which I would call the attention of na- 

 turalists is one described and figured by Radde, in the ' Reisen im 

 Siiden von Ost-Sibirien,' 1862, p. 106, as Felis undata, Desmarest. 

 A short time since Mr. A. D. Bartlett, the Superintendent of the 

 Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, lent me a skin of a Cat, stated 

 to have come from Siberia, which appeared different from any which 

 I had previously seen ; but on comparing it with Radde's description 

 of F. undata it was apparently the same. 



On looking at the original description of F. undata (' Nouveau 

 Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle,' vol. vi. p. 115) I found it was 

 established upon a Cat from India, said to be little smaller than the 

 F. javanensis, described on the same page, and also compared with 

 the " Chat sauvage Indien" of Vosmaer. Judging from the plate, 

 Vosmaer's animal is only a domestic Cat, and at all events is totally 

 different from the animal figured by Radde, which in many particu- 

 lars does not resemble any Cat known to inhabit India, possessing, 

 among other characteristics, a short rather bushy tail, quite different 



