I 
1037 
Mesocestoides < 1299. — Intest. 
lineaius. — Africa. 
Haemaphysalis t869. — Ext. 
bispinosa intermedia. — India. 
^leachi « leachi. — ^^gypt *. 
Procaviopsylla < 11634.— Ext. 
creusae. — Cape Colony *. 
divergens. — Cape Colony *. 
Pulex tl635.— Ext. 
■\irritans. — Cape Colony. 
#413 Felis [or Lynx] (#413n Lynx, Caracal, Lynchus) caracal nubica Fischer, 
1829, Synopsis Mamm., 210. Nubia, Africa. 
Mesocestoides <t299. — Small intest. 
lineatus. 
#413 Felis ^ [or Catolynx Catus °, Chaus (Felis, Coti) catus 21 Linn., 1758a, 42. 
Clearly the "blotched tabby" domesticated cat, fide Pocock, 1907, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 149, and Thomas, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 137. 
Possibly some of the parasites reported under Felis catus should be trans- 
ferred to Felis silvestris, as there has been a tendency to use catus for the 
wild cat and domestica or catus domestica for the domesticated cat. More 
or less cosmopolitan; Upsala, Sweden *. 
Amoeba t64. 
[species Franchini, 1922: "amibes". — 
Exp. from plants.] 
5/ Anaplasma ^172S. — Blood. 
species Laveran & Franchini, 1914. 
Babesia tl73. — Blood. 
felis. — Exp. 
species Davis, 1929. — Exp. 
tropica . — India . 
Cytospermium j <tl57. 
villorum intestinalium canis p. — -So. 
tl61 Isospora bigemina. 
Eimeria tl63. 
felina. — Feces. —Holland — T. h. 
nova ^. — Esoph., stom., intest. 
^perforans. — Neg. exp. 
Endamoeba t37. 
t*coh*. — Exp. 
[^dispar — Exp.] 
[t*dysenteriae ^. — Exp.; natural infec- 
tion, Peking.] 
[^enterica.] 
* gedoelsti. — Intest.— U. S. A.* 
t *gingivalis . — Mouth . 
21 For a discussion of the complicated question of the origin of the domesticated cats, see Pocock, 1907, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 12, 143-168, pis. 8-10. Pocock's views may be summarized as follows: 
"The characters used by breeders and fanciers as a basis for their so-called breeds of English Domestic 
Cats have no scientific value, in the sense of affording a clue to affinity and descent. 
"The pattern— or, in other words, the arrangement of the stripes— shows that English Domestic Cats are 
referable to two distinct types, whether they belong to the 'Manx,' 'Persian' or 'Short-haired' breeds. 
"These two types of pattern are different in kind and do not intergrade. They are so distinct from each 
other that no one would hesitate to regard them as characterising two well-marked species if the animals 
presenting them existed in a wild as opposed to a domesticated state. 
"In one type of pattern the stripes take the form of narrow transverse or vertical bands which sometimes 
break up into spots. To feral or domesticated examples of this Cat have been given many names, of which 
torquata is the best known and angorensis or striata possibly the oldest. 
" This Cat (torquata) was apparently domesticated in Europe at least as early as the 16th century. There 
seems to be no reason therefore for regarding it as of Indian origin. 
"It closely resembles in pattern two existing species, namely, the so-called Egyptian Cat (F. ocreata) 
and the European Wild Cat (F. sylvestris), both of which occur at the present day in the Mediterranean 
Region, and are very nearly related to each other. There is no difficulty in the way of believing that they 
are the ancestral forms or 'agriotypes' of this domesticated race {torquata) . 
"In the other type of pattern the stripes take the form of broad longitudinal or obliquely longitudinal 
bands forming a ring-like or spiral arrangement on the sides of the abdomen. To domesticated examples of 
this Cat, Linnaeus gave the name catus, which cannot be applied to any other form of the genus Felis. 
Domestica is its best-known synonym. 
"This Cat (catus) is certainly known to have been domesticated in Europe in the middle of the 18th 
centur3^ It was not, however, apparently known in India in the middle of the 19th century. Probably, 
therefore, it is of European descent. 
"Its origin is unknown. Of the several hypotheses that may be held on this subject perhaps the following 
two are the most to be commended: that it arose as a sudden variation or sport from the torquata-hreed, in 
which case European Domestic Cats are dimorphic in pattern; that it is the direct descendant of some ex- 
tinct Pleistocene Cat. in which case there are two distinct species of Domestic Cat in Europe." 
