400 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FEI-ID.-E. [Apr. 11, 



skull and incomplete orbits, there are several specimens in the Mu- 

 seum which appear to be worthy of being noticed either as species or 

 well-marked varieties. They all have two well-marked streaks on 

 each cheek, and there is a pale or white streak up each side of the 

 forehead, and one between the cheek-streaks. 



To this group belong Felis sumatrana and Felis javanensis of 

 Horstield, Zool. Java ; Felis nepalensis, Vigors and Horsfield, Zool. 

 Jour. iv. t. 39 ; and Felis chinensis. Gray, Mag. N. H. 1837, from 

 China. To these I wish to add the following : — 



Felis pardinoides. B.M. 



Fur grey brown, with large black grey-varied spots ; chin and 

 beneath white. Spots of vertebral line black ; of withers large, ob- 

 long ; of loins linear ; of sides, shoulder, and rump large, roundish, 

 varied with grey hairs in the centre, making them appear somewhat 

 as if they were formed of a ring of smaller black spots ; of thigh 

 and fore legs black, small, and there confluent into cross bands. Tail 

 with black rings. Length, body and head 19, tail 9 inches. 



Hab. India {Capt. Innes ; from Zool. Soc. Mus.). 



Skull, length 3^^^ width 2, finches; orbits moderate, oblong; 

 hinder nasal opening oblong, with an angular front edge. 



Felis wagati. The Wagati. B.M. 



Fur fulvous ; nose, chin, throat, and underside of body, and 

 streak on forehead and cheek, pale yellow. Spots of body few, large, 

 irregular-shaped ; of withers large, elongate, broad ; of loins elon- 

 gate, narrow, more or less confluent. Tail with round spots. 



Felis ivayati, Elliot i^Jide Blyth). 

 Hab. India. 



Differs from F. pardochroa and F. sumatrana in the large size 

 of the spots. 



Felis pardochroa. Nepal Tiger. B.M. 



Fulvous, with various-sized and -formed black spots and streaks. 

 Spots of the loins oblong, separate ; throat, chin, and belly white, 

 black-spotted. Tail irregularly and incompletely ringed. 



Felis pardochrous, Hodgson, Calc. Journ. iv. p. 280 j Horsfield, 

 P. Z. S. 185G, p. 396. 



F. nepalensis, Hodgson, icon ined. 



Hab. Nepal {Hodgson'). 



Length, body and head 25, tail 12 inches. Skull, length 3 inches 

 1 1 lines, width 2 inches 8 lines. 



Var. Fur shorter, closer. B.M. 



Hab. Tenasserim (^Packman). 



Felis tenasserimensis. B.M. 



Fulvous, black-spotted ; chin and beneath white. Spots of the 

 body large, angular ; of shoulder round ; of thigh oblong ; of the 

 loins elongate, confluent ; of the back of the neck elongate, double 



