1867.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE FELID^. 401 



at the hinder part, and on the withers nearly enclosing a lanceolate 

 hrown disk. 



Hab. India; Tenasserim (PacAwaw). 



Like F. pardochroa, but larger ; spots of withers and loins very 

 different. 



Felis servalina. B.M. 



Fulvous, black-spotted ; streak on forehead and cheeks, chin, 

 throat, and beneath yellowish white. Spots small, unequal-sized, 

 far apart ; of body oblong ; of legs round ; of loins elongate, some- 

 times confluent ; of withers oblong. 



Chaus servalinus, Grray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 45 (excl. syn.). 



Hab. India; Zanzibar. 



Like F. sumatrana, but spots smaller and further apart. 



Felis jerdoni. 



Fur grey, with a few small distant black spots. Spots of sides 

 and legs roundish ; of central line of the back linear, rarely confluent. 

 Tail and feet darker grey brown, scarcely spotted ; chin and beneath 

 white, black-spotted. 



Felis jerdoni, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 185 (not described). 



Leopardus sumatranus (var. grey). Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 43. 



Hab. Indian peninsula : Madras. Adult in British Museum. 



"Very like F. bengalensis, but smaller; the ground-colour of the 

 upper part grey, untinged with fulvous" (Blyth). Size of i^. rubi- 

 ginosa. The " kitten " that Mr. Blyth refers to as being in the 

 British Museum is a nearly full-grown specimen. 



The following rather short-tailed Indian Cat has not been well 

 understood. It has been most oddly mixed up by Mr. Blyth and 

 others with Felis torquata (the Chat de Nepaid of F. Cuvier, Mamm. 

 Lithog. ii. livr. 54), also named Felis bengalensis by Desmarest in 

 the Supplement to his Mammalia, which is a grey-waved Cat, nearly 

 like the English Domestic Cat, and is probably a half-bred Domestic 

 Cat of India, as is said to be the case with the F. nepalensis of 

 Vigors and Horsfield (Zool. Jour. iv. t. 39), which resembles this 

 figure in some respects. 



As the wild Indian species has not been characterized, I here de- 

 scribe the specimen in the Museum : — 



Felis ornata. Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. i. t. 2. 



Fur short, pale whitish brown, black-spotted. Spots small ; on 

 the middle of the back smaller, linear ; on the front part of the sides 

 larger, oblong ; on the hinder part of the sides small, round ; on the 

 thighs and upper part of the legs confluent, forming interrupted 

 cross bands. Tail reaching rather below the heel, pale at the lower 

 half, with some interrupted black rings at the end, which is whiter 

 than the rest of the tail, the tip black. Crown with lines of small 

 spots ; cheeks with two narrow dark lines ; chin, throat, and spot 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1867, No. XXVI. 



