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3. SMINTHOPSIS LEUCOPUS, Gray, sp. (1842). 

 White-footed Pouched Mouse. 



Size medium ; form slender. Fur close, fine, and straight. 

 General color above uniform dark grayish-brown or mouse-color, 

 with no prominent markings ; below white. Ears large and 

 broad, their backs uniform slaty-gray. Hands and feet pure white. 

 Palms finely granulated with six pads. Soles finely hairy 

 posteriorly, coarsely granulated anteriorly ; the pads small, four 

 in number, and finely striated transversely. Tail moderate, 

 slender, shorter in southern than in extreme northern specimens, 

 gray or brown above, white below. Mammse ? 



Dimensions. Head and body about four inches ; tail in southern 

 examples about three and a half, in northern about four inches. 



Habitat. Eastern Australia from Cape York to Tasmania. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 302, pis. xxiii. figs. 5 (ear), 

 6 (sole), xxv. figs. 7 (teeth), 8 and 9 (skull) ; Gould, Mamm. Austr. 

 i. pis, xxxv. (S. leucopus), xxxvi. (S.ferrugineifrons). 



4. SMINTHOPSIS VIRGINIA, De Tarragon, sp. (1847). 



Striped-faced Pouched Mouse. 



Size large. Fur rather short, very soft and silky. General 

 color above grizzled gray ; below white or pale yellow. Face sandy 

 rufous, ornamented with a central and on each side a lateral black 

 longitudinal line. Cheeks, sides of neck, and basal ear-tufts bright 

 rufous. Ears very large and nearly naked. Outside of upper 

 arms and thighs like the back ; rest of limbs white. Sole-pads 

 probably similar to those of S. leucopus. Tail short-haired, dark 

 brown above, paler below. Mammae 1 



Dimensions. Head and body about five inches ; tail about the 

 same. 



Habitat. Herbert River District, Queensland. 



References. Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 300; Collett, P.Z.S. 1886, 

 p. 548, pi. lx. (animal, skull and teeth). 



Genus IV. PHASCOLOGALE, Temminck, (1827). 



Body unspotted. Form slender and graceful. Ears rounded. 

 Tail long, bushy, crested, or nearly naked. Feet broad and short. 

 Toes subequal, with sharp, curved claws ; hallux present, short 

 and clawless. Soles naked, granulated, with five transversely- 

 striated pads ; the hallucal pad often divided into two. Pouch 

 practically obsolete. Mammse four, six, eight, or ten. 



Dentition I L2 - 3 - 4 C l P ^^ M ^^ V 2 - 46 

 1.2.3 ' 1' 1.0.3.4' 1.2.3.4 X ~ 



Habits Arboreal ; insectivorous. 



Note. The fourth premolar is absent in P. cristicaudata. 



