44 Mr. O. Thomas V. — SinaU Mammals from South America. By Oldfield Thomas. (Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) Leontocfhas mi'das egens, subsp. n. General characters of true Guianan midas, but back more strongly suffused with dark butfy, generally throughout, and in all cases across the shoulders. Black o£ the head less deep and less continued down on to the back, t!ie grizzled butiy of the back going further forward on the nape. Hands, instead of being wholly " ochraceous " or " ochraceous buff," only of this colour on the outer half of the wrist, the meta-carpus and digits being decidedly lighter coloured, " buff " or " cream-buff." Feet also rather lighter than in midas, though the difference is less conspicuous. Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — Head and body 229 mm, ; tail 384 ; hind foot G5 ; ear 40. Skull : greatest length 49-5. Ilab. Obidos, Lower Amazons. Ti/pe. Adult female. B.M. no. 12. 5. 11. 5. Original number 58. Collected 15th February, 1912, by Fraulein Dr. E. Snethlage ; presented by the Goeldi Museum, Para. Five specimens examined. This Amazonian form of the common yellow-handed marmoset is closely similar to the typical Guianan animal, but may be distinguished by the paler colour of its hands, a difference verified on five examples of egensns compared with ten of midas. Curiously enough, two specimens from the Moon Mountains, the nearest locality in Guiana to Obidos, have hands of an even darker tone than those of British Guiana, and resemble in this respect one from Cayenne which 1 have always considered to represent Geoffroy's rufimanus. Felis pardinoides emerifa, subsp. n. General characters of F. pardinoides, including size, the backward direction of the nape-hairs, and the general colora-tion. But the feet, both fore and hind, instead of being blackened below, as is usual in the majority of cats, are not or scarcely darker below than above, where they are of a uniform " clay-colour " ; the heel alone is blackish, as in the allied forms. White ear-patches larger than in pardinoides
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