Mr. O. Thomas on Neotropical Mammals. 239 
Hab. Jima, Province of Azuay, Ecuador. Altitude 2400. 
metres. 
This Andean form of the group may be distinguished from 
pardinoides by its softer fur and larger skull, and from oncilla 
by its lighter underside and light narrowly ringed tail. 
Felis salinarum, sp. n. 
Generally similar to F. Geoffroy7, but much smaller. 
Fur thin and shaggy. MHairs of nape not reversed. 
General colour sandy buff. Spots very numerous, quite 
small, not connected into lines, except on the nape. Cheek- 
lines narrow and inconspicuous. Lars large, the white patch 
on their backs large, and extending downwards to their outer 
base. Nape with two narrow continuous black lines on each 
side of the middle line, and two more interrupted and less 
well-marked lines outside them. Chin white ; throat buffy ; 
chest and groins white, belly sandy ; a black line across the 
interramia, another on the throat, and a number of black 
spots, larger than those on the upper surface, on the belly. 
Limbs sandy on their outer, whiter on their inner surfaces, 
strongly banded proximally, the spots dying away on the 
metapodials. ‘Tail sandy, irregularly marked above only 
proximally, ringed terminally. 
Skull scarcely exceeding in length that of F. oncilla, 
consequently much smaller than that of F. Geoffroyi.  Post- 
orbital processes well developed. Brain-case broadly rounded, 
but more contracted anteriorly than in the #. Wredii group. 
Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh :— 
Head and body 435 millim.; tail 265; hind foot 97; 
ear 37. 
Skull: greatest length 84:5 ; basal length 71 ; zygomatic 
breadth 56°5 ; length of nasals in midlle line 17 ; inter- 
orbital breadth 15:5 ; tip to tip of postorbital processes 38 ; 
postorbital constriction 26°5; breadth of brain-case 41°d ; 
palate length 32 ; length of upper incisive row 10; length 
of p* on outer edge 10°7. 
Hab. of type. Cruz del Hje, Central Cordova. Alt. 
600 m. 
Type. Female. B.M. no. 2. 2.5.10. Original number 
1713. Collected 28th November, 1901, by the late P. O. 
Simons. One specimen. 
This is a small northern representative of F. Geoffroy?, 
and was rightly distinguished as such by Dr. Matschie *, 
* SB. Ges. nat. Fr, Berlin (1894), p. 59. 
