1915.] Allen, New South American Mammals. : 631 
Margay tigrina elene subsp. nov. 
Type, No. 37788, o ad., Santa Elena (altitude 9000 feet), Antioquia, Colombia, 
Jan. 11, 1915; L. E. Miller and H. A. Boyle. 
Similar in general coloration to Margay tigrina emerita (Felis pardinotdes emerita 
Thomas) of the Venezuelan Andes (Merida district), but the palms and soles are 
strongly blackish instead of the feet being “‘scarcely darker below than above,’ and 
the skull is relatively shorter and broader. The ground color above is rather deeper 
tawny, but the markings are similar in all essential details. 
Represented by the type only, an old male with the skull sutures wholly oblit- 
erated. A specimen from Almaguer (skin without skull) 1s provisionally referred 
ee es ; 
There are no field measurements, but the skull measures as follows as compared 
with a topotype skull of emerita (measurements of the latter in parenthesis): Total 
length, 86 (86); condylobasal length, 79.3 (82.5); zygomatic breadth, 58 (57); 
breadth of braincase, 39 (37); interorbital breadth, 16 (15); postorbital constriction 
28 (26); tip to tip of postorbital processes, 41.5 (41); length of upper toothrow 
(including canine), 24.5 (24.5); length of p*, 9.3 (9.6). 
While the total length of the skull is the same in the type of elene as in a 
topotype of emerita, the condylobasal length is 3 mm. less in the type of 
elene than in the topotype of emerita, due to the more posterior position of 
the condyles in emerita. This gives a strikingly different aspect to the 
occipital region of the skull, especially when viewed in profile, the occipital 
plane in emerita being nearly vertical, in elene strongly oblique, owing to the 
more anterior position of the condyles. The two skulls are perfectly com- 
parable in respect to age and sex. 
Margay caucensis sp. nov. 
Type, No. 14187 (skin only), Las Pavas (altitude 6000 feet), near San Antonio, 
upper Rio Cauca, Colombia; J. H. Batty. 
The markings of the upperparts are intense black, sharply defined, and greatly 
exceed in area the deep fulvous ground color; similar in other respects to the color 
pattern of the margay cats. Underparts with the belly fulvous sharply spotted with 
black, the ground color lighter along the midline; chest, axillar regions and fore 
neck white or whitish, with the usual black bars behind the throat and on the lower 
fore neck; a well-marked yellowish white superciliary line; white ear spots small; 
tail with the strong black rings complete on the apical third; palms and soles brown- 
ish black. : 
Total length (measurements from skin), 760 mm. ; tail vertebree, 300; hind foot, 
95. The skull is unfortunately lacking. 
This specimen is strikingly different in coloration from any of the hitherto 
described margay cats of western South America, through the predominance 
