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brown, below and inner side of limbs white. Area round and 

 just in front of eyes brown. Tufts of hairs just behind the eye, 

 and inside the ears, which are of medium size, fawn color on the 

 outside anteriorly, white posteriorly. Edges of parachute fringed 

 with longer hairs. Hands and feet brown. Tail rather long, 

 fawn color, its extreme tip below naked, probably prehensile. 



Dimensions. Head and body about three inches ; tail about 

 the same length. 



Habitat. Queensland, south of 20 S. lat., New South Wales, 

 and Victoria. 



References. Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 136; Gould, Mamm. 

 Austr. i. pi. xxviii. 



Subfamily III. TARSIPEDIN^E. 



Tail long. Snout very long and slender ; tongue extensile. No 

 coacum. Cheek-teeth minute and rudimentary. 



Genus XI. TARSIPES, Gervais & Verreaux (1842). 



Size small ; form slender. Head long and narrow ; muzzle 

 elongate ; tongue long. Ears medium, thinly haired. Palms and 

 soles naked and granulated. All the claws rudimentary, except 

 those on the syndactylous second and third hind toes. Pouch 

 pi'esent. Tail very long, thinly haired, prehensile. Mammse 

 four. Upper canines and lower incisors comparatively well 

 developed. 



Dentition (apparently)-!. JfJ, C. i P. * M. (at most) g 

 X2 = 22. 

 Habits. Arboreal ; insectivorous ; mellivorous. 



1. TARSIPES ROSTRATUS, Gerv. & Verr. (1842). 

 Long-snouted Pouched Mouse. 



Fur short, coarse, and hispid. Rhinarium naked, finely granu- 

 lar, sharply defined. General color above gray, striped with black 

 or brown ; below yellowish-white. An indistinct pale area round 

 each eye. Ears rounded. Arms and legs gray ; hands and feet 

 white. Palms and soles, each with five distinct pads. Fourth 

 and fifth toes disproportionately long and practically clawless, 

 like the hallux ; junction of second and third toes very complete. 

 Tail brown above, white or pale yellow on the sides and below ; 

 the extreme tip below naked. 



Dimensions. Head and body about three inches ; tail about 

 four inches. 



Habitat. West Australia. 



