46 LAGORCHESTES. 



3. LAGORCHESTES CONSPICILLATUS, Gould (1841). 

 Spectacled Hare -Wallaby. 



Form comparatively thick and heavy. Rhinarium with lower 

 half of nasal septum and edges of nostrils naked. Muzzle broad 

 and heavy. Fur long and coarse ; under fur of back uniform 

 blackish-brown. General color above coarsely grizzled yellowish- 

 gray,; below mixed white and slaty-gray. Chestnut band round 

 the eye well defined, not prolonged forwards on the sides of the 

 muzzle. Ears short, less than one-third of the hind foot, their 

 backs grizzled-gray, the insides and edges nearly white. Two 

 whitish lateral bands. Arms, hands, legs, and feet gray, tinged 

 with rufous. Tail above and on the sides clothed with scattered 

 white hairs, except at the very base where they are gray ; below 

 more closely set and tinged with fawn. Canines well developed 

 and functional. 



Dimensions. Head and body about twenty inches ; tail about 

 seventeen inches. 



Habitat. Islands off the North-west coast of Australia. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 80, pis. ix. fig. 12 (upper 

 front teeth), x. fig. 16 (fourth premolar), xiii. fig. 3 (upper view 

 of skull); Gould, Mamm. Austr. ii. pi. lix. 



4. LAGORCHESTES LEICHHARDTI, Gould (1863). 

 Leichhardt's Hare -Wallaby. 



Essential characters as in L. conspicillatus, but with the ears 

 slightly longer, and the coloration much more brilliant. Back 

 deep fawn color ; band round the eye rich bright rufous. Under 

 side and lateral bands nearly pure white. 



Dimensions. Head and body about twenty-one inches ; tail 

 about eighteen inches. 



Habitat. North Australia. 



Type. In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 82 ; Gould, Mamm. Austr. 

 ii. pi. Ix. 



Note. My reason for continuing to keep the continental form 



at least provisionally separate from the insular, notwithstanding 

 the opinions of such eminent mammalogists as Messrs. Collett and 

 Thomas, is that the skull of an undoubted specimen of L. con- 

 spicillatus which has been recently received at the Museum from 

 Cambridge Gulf, is much stouter and shorter than that figured by 

 Thomas (loc. cit.) as L. leichhardti. 



