Prionailurus rubiginosus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831) . In Bélanger (ed.), Voy. Indes Orient., Mamm., 3(Zoologie): 140.

TYPE LOCALITY: "bois de lataniers qui couvrent une hauteur voisine de Pondichéry " [India, Pondicherry] .

DISTRIBUTION: India and Sri Lanka (see Chakraborty, 1978).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I (Indian population), otherwise Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: koladivinus Deraniyagala, 1956; phillipsi Pocock, 1939.

COMMENTS: Placed in Prionailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvfl (1982c), and Groves (1982a).