^56 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON SOME AFRICAN CATS [June 18, 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVII. 



-Fig. 1. Limnocnida tanganica. From a specimen in wliicli tlie tentacles of the 



seventh order have appeared. 

 2. Transverse section of tentacle. — end. Endodermal lining of tentacle, gl. 



Mesoglffia of exumbrella. 

 ■3. Transverse section of radial canal (B.C.). end. Endoderm of radial canal. 



end. I. Endoderm lamella, c. Problematical corpuscles in radial canal. 

 4. Surface view of the periphery of the umbrella of a specimen of L. tanga niece 



var. victoricB from which the tentacles have become detached. — r. The 



grooved ridges in which the tentacles of orders 1 to 6 were partly imbedded, 

 o. Ditto, in transverse section. 



6. Portion of bud-bearing manubrium of i. fanganicce. One part has become 



detached as described by Mr. J. Moore. 



7. Ditto, with older medusa-buds having tentacles of the first and second orders 



developed. 



7. Notes upon some African Species of the Genus Felis, 

 based upon specimens recently exhibited in the Society's 

 Gardens. By R. I. Pocock, F.L.S., Superintendent of 

 the Gardens. 



[Received May 28, 1907.] 



(Plate XXXVIIL* and Text-figures 175-178.) 



On Felis aurata Temminck. 

 The synonymy of this species is as follows : — 



Felis aurata Temminck, Mon. Mamm. i. p. 120 (1827). 

 ,, celidogaster id. oj). cit. p. 140. 

 ,, chrysoihrix id. op. cit. p. 251. 

 „ chcdyheata H. Smith, Grifl\ An. King. ii. p. 474 (1827), 



nee Herm. 

 „ neglecta Gray, Ann. Xat. Hist. i. p. 27 (1838). 

 „ rutila Waterh., P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 130. 

 ,, chrysothrix cottoni Lydd., P. Z. S. 1906, p. 992. 



Although chrysothrix has been more commoidy employed for 

 this species than either aurata or celidogaster, aurata appears by 

 I'ight of page priority to be its oldest available title. The name 

 chrysothrix was proposed by Temminck to replace aitrata, appar- 

 ently because he had learnt from Desmarest's work that Rafinesque 

 had applied the name aitreus to a North American species of 

 Lynx. Atoreus, however, does not exclude aurata from use in the 

 same genus ; and even if Rafinesque had written auratus, a good case 

 could be made out for the retention of aurata Temm., on the grounds 

 of generic distinction between the species so named and the Lynx 

 described by Rafinesque. But if aurata be set on one side, as 

 has been commonly done, celidogaster should be preferred to 

 chrysothrix by those who, like Dr. Elliot, Pousargues, and 

 Mr. Lydekker, believe the two names to belong to the same 

 species. 



* For explanation of the Plate, see p. 677. 



