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not externally constricted. Alisphenoid canal absent. Carotid canal very 
minute. Form usually slender, legs moderately long; size moderate to 
large; metatarsus entirely hairy. Vertebrae: e.7, d. 13, 1.7, s.3, ca. 13 to 29. 
! Anal glands present. Entire continental region of both Old and New Worlds, 
to limits of tree growth; Malay Archipelago; in Europe west to Great Brit- 
ain; not in Australia or Madagascar region. See #412. 
Syns.: Caracal » Gray, 1843, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 46, mt. tat. caracal so. melanotis; 
Caracala ° » Gray, 1843, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xx [46], 202, mt. tvt. caracal so. viel<i- 
notis; 
Cervaria ^ o ^ Gray, 1867, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 276 [not Cervaria Walker, 1866, lepidopt.], 
tsd. (1901; 1924; 1929) 1st sp. pardina Temm. so. pardellus Miller (tsd. 1917); 
Eucervaria » Palmer, 1903, Science, N. S., v. 17, May 29, 873 [for Cervaria ^ Gray, 1867], type by 
renaming (Art. 30/, Internat. Rules) pardina so. pardellus; 
[Linx o Friscli, 1775, Das Natur-syst. vierfixss. Th. in Tab., 12, Tab. Gen. [nv], tsd. (1905) lynx Linn. 
Name not available.] 
Lynces Wagner, 1841, Schreber's Saugthiere, Suppl., v. 2, 515; 
Lynceus ^ ° Gray, 1821, London Med. Repos., v. 15, .302, mt. lynx [not Lynceus Miiller, 1776, 
Crustacea], tsd. (1917; 1929) lynx Linn.; 
Lynchus » Gray in Jardine, 1834, Nat. Lib., Mamm., v. 2, 274, tsd. (1904; 1917) lynx Linn.; 
Lyncus « Gray, 1825, Ann. Philos., N. S., v. 10 (5), 339 [nomen nudum here], tsd. (1917; 1929) lynx; 
Pardina <> » Kaup, 1829, Entw.-Gesch. Naturl. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt, v. 1, 57, 189, mt. tat. 
pardina so. pardellus; 
Serval * Brehm, 1864, Fiihrer Zool. Garten Hamburg, Auflage 6, 53 [nv] type maculatus, Algiers 
[not #413/" Serval ^ Gray, 1867]; 
Urolynchus " Severtzow, 1858, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, 2d ser., v. 10, Sept., 389, 390, mt. caracal. 
Ulio (I). Outer chamber of bulla small or very small; partition rising close to crest of tympanic annulus. 
See p. 
HUp (q). * Puma Jardine, 1834, Nat. Lib., Mamm., v. 2, 266, tat. "the puma" = coTOcoZor Linn. (tsd. 1858; 
1904; 1905; 1929); Severtzow, 1858, 123, mt. concolor syn. puma Molina.— [Pupil circular.] Skull short, 
rounded, zygomata wide, maxilla receding, not expanded above; palatine foramen in orbit very large, dis- 
tance between it and orbital foramen only little greater than width of wide, short mesopterygoid fossa and 
than anterior nares; palate broad, sides of its posterior elongation widely divergent; postorbital processes 
short, blunt; occiput wide across mastoids. From the United States to Patagonia. 
Sya. Unicolores » Greve, 1894, Nova Acta Acad. Leop., Halle, v. 63, 48, tvt. (tpd.) 1st sp. concolor. 
Hliq ip). Without combination of characters shown in Puma. See #413r. 
#413r (s). Pardofelis Severtzow, 1858, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, 2d ser., v. 10, Sept., 387, 390, mt. marmo' 
rafa.— Mesopterygoid fossa lanceolate in front, with very thick lateral edges or large external crest; skull 
short, broad and high. East Indies from Himalayas to Borneo. 
Syn. Catolynx t o Gray, 1867, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 267, tsd. (1917, 1929) 1st sp. marmoraia [not #413?n 
Catolynx Severtzow, 1858]. 
HUs (r). Without combination of characters shown in Pardofelis. See #413^. 
HUt(u). Zibethailurus Severtzow, 1858, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, 2d ser., v. 10, Sept., 387, 390, mt. 
viverrina Bennett.— External pterygoid crest reduced to a small triangular lamina; preorbital thickening 
of malar very large; masseteric crest on malar remote from its lower edge; skull powerful, with strong con- 
strictions and upper half of occiput narrow but rounded above; coronoid wide and rounded at summit. 
[Pupil circular.] India and Ceylon to S. China, Formosa and Tenasserim. 
Syn. Viverriceps <> Gray, 1867, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 268, tat. viverriceps syn, bennettii Gray so. viverrina 
Benn. (tsd. 1917; 1929). 
HUu(t). Without combination of characters shown in Zibethailurus. See #413tf. 
#413p(«;). PrionaUurus Severtzow, 1858, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, 2d ser., v. 10, Sept., 387, 390, mt. 
pardochrous Hodg. so. bengalensis Kerr.— Masseteric crest on malar remote from its inferior edge; narrowest 
point of preorbital constriction nearly over center of orbit; postorbital processes long, often confluent, 
occipital area narrow, its width across mastoids less than width of cranium, its sides hardly emarginate, its 
summit rather narrowly rounded, and its width halfway above condyles about equal to transcondylar 
width; portion of bulla behind stylomastoid smaller than that in front of it. Ceylon and India east to 
Borneo and Philippines and north into China and Amurland. 
Miiw(v). Without combination of characters shown in PrionaUurus. See #413r. 
UUxiy). Profelis Severtzow, 1858, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, 2d ser., v. 10, Sept., 386, 390, mt. celidogaster 
Temm. so. aurata Temm.— Skull powerfully developed with wide occiput, narrowest point of preorbital 
constriction nearly above center of orbital space, maxilla not expanded above but inclined back well beyond 
lacrymal foramen; area of bulla behind stylomastoid foramen much smaller than that in front of it; mandi- 
bles with 1st premolar much lower than carnassial, condyle high above angular and well-developed sub- 
-masseteric ridge. Himalaya.s and China to Indo-Malaysia; W. African forest region. 
