1867.] TOR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELID.*:. 395 



spots of the lower part of the sides rather larger ; belly white, with 

 large blackish spots ; tail quite half the length of the body, with a 

 dark line along the upper surface, sides paler, with obscure indi- 

 cations of darker bands. 



Hab. Gambia (Rendal). The typical skin in British Museum. 



2. Felis servalina, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 4. 



Fur fulvous, beneath white, middle of the back darker, with very 

 numerous small black spots, spots on sides rather larger, on the belly 

 much larger ; tail short, fulvous, with five or six imperfect black 

 rings and a pale tip. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. Three skins in British Museum. 



3. Felis rutila, Waterhouse, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 130. 



Red-brown, with indistinct darker spots on tlie back ; belly white, 

 with large brown spots ; tail moderate, nearly half the length of the 

 body, red-brown, with a dark central line down the upper surface, 

 paler with obscure indications of bands on the sides. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. Type and tw'o other specimens in British 

 Museum. 



The skull of this species is in the British Museum. It is oblong ; 

 the orbit rather large, incomplete behind ; the intermaxillary pro- 

 duced and extending halfway up the side of the nasal ; the upper 

 front false grinder very small. 



Temminck has described a Cat purchased at the sale of Bullock's 

 Museum in Piccadilly under the name of Felis celidogaster (Monogr. 

 Mamm. 140), stating that he believes that it inhabits Chili or Peru 

 (more lately it has been believed that it might be an Lidian Cat — 

 the Felis viver^-ina of Bennett, for example) ; but no Cat of the kind 

 is known in those countries. In his 'Esquisses' he has rede- 

 scribed the species from a specimen received from Guinea. The 

 following is a translation of his description: — 



"Felis cELiDOGASTER,Temm.Monogr. i. 140; Esquisses Zool. 8 7. 



"Felis chalybeata, H. Smith, Griffith, A. K. ii. t. (not good). 



"Tail rather shorter than half the length of the body and head. 

 Length of body and head 26, tail 14 inches =3 feet 4 inches. 



" Fur short, smooth, shiny, grey, with a reddish tint, with choco- 

 late or light brown spots ; spots on dorsal line oblong, the others 

 round ; cheek and lips whitish, with small brown spots ; throat and 

 chest with six or seven half-circular brown bands ; lower parts and 

 inner side of the limbs pure white, with large round chocolate-brown 

 spots ; two bands of this colour on the inner side of the fore, and 

 four on the hind feet ; tail bay brown, with paler brown rings, end 

 black brown ; outer face of the ears black ; claws white." 



Lesson, in the ' Magasin de Zoologie ' for 1839 (Mammiferes, 1. 10), 

 has figured and described a Cat under the name of Felis senegalensis, 

 which is said to have been brought from the river Senegal. It is 

 thus described: — "Felis rufo- fulvoque-griseus, subtus rufescenti- 



