264 DR. J. K. GRAY ON THE SKULLS OF THK FELIDiE. [Mar. 14, 



Var. Black. — F. melas, Peron. F.fusca, Meyer. 



Hab. Southern Asia ; North, South, and West Africa. 



Pupil round. — Bartlett ; Gray. 



Very variable in the size and number of the spots. Skull : nasal 

 elongate, back edge on a line with back edge of maxilla ; internal 

 nostril rather narrow. Length 9| inches, width 5f inches. 



2. Leopardus japonensis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 262, t. 33. 

 Hab. Japan. 



Fig. 2. 



Le(ypardus chincnsis. 



3. Leopardus chinensis. (Fig. 2.) 



Skull (in British Museum) very like that of a Leopard, but shorter; 

 and the nose, instead of being nearly flat, is regularly arched before 

 the orbits. 



Hab. Pekin, mountain-forests of the west. 



Skull : length 6^ inches, width 4| inches. Nasal wide, flat ; apex 

 produced rather behind the back edge of the maxilla. Processes 

 of the intermaxilla very slender, short ; forehead broad, convex. 



This may be the skull of L. brachyurns. There are two or three 

 skulls of Leopards in the Museum received from Utrecht without 

 habitats, that ratlier resemble the Pekin specimen, which was pre- 

 sented to us by Dr. Lockhart. 



4. Leopardus onca. 



Felis onca, Linn. 



F. jiunthera, Schreb. ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. t. 34. f. 3, 4. 



Jayuar, BuflFon. 



Var. Black. — Felis nigra, Erxl. 



