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fusco-alba." Body 3 7 ' 9'", tail 3" 2'". Phascog. mehts, has been figured in 

 the 'Nederl. Verhandel,' lab. 25. 



Another marsupial animal, determined by Waterhouse, and from tin- 

 same locality, is Perameles Harveyi (1. c. p. 307) : " P. pilis mollibus ; cor- 

 pore supra fusco alboque irrorato, infra albo ; cauda louga, supra fusca, infra 

 et ad apicera sordide alba." 



A second new species is Gould's Perameles macroura (1. c. p. 232) : " P. 

 corpora supra nigro et flavescenti albo penicillato, infra sordide albo ; pilis 

 rigidis obsito ; cauda pilis parvulis parce tecta, longitudine dimidio corporis 

 sequante, supra uigra, infra fuscescenti-alba ; auribus mediocribus." Body 

 16" 3'", tail 7" 3'". From Port Essington. Very much like P. nasuta, but, 

 the tail is longer. 



With respect to the species of this genus formerly instituted by me, 

 Parameles myosuros, I have to remark that I have since then obtained a 

 second specimen and in the best condition, from which I perceive, in the 

 first place, that in the former specimen the tail had lost all the hair, and 

 was otherwise mutilated, since in the second specimen it was thickly covered 

 with short white hair ; and, moreover, having now been enabled to consult, 

 instead of the inaccurate description by Gray, the correct one by Water- 

 house, I have found that both specimens are identical with P. Gunnii. 



Of the habits of Tarsipes, some account has been given 

 by Captain Gray, Governor of South Australia. (Ann. Nat. 

 Hist, xi, p. 76.) 



A specimen was in his possession for several months, when it escaped. It, 

 was fed upon moths and flics, which it seized by the wings, and whose bodies 

 only it devoured ; it was never seen to drink. It usually slept in the daytime 

 rolled up like a ball, but it was very lively at night, and readily climbed 

 branches of trees ; it would hang suspended by the -tail to a small branch 

 and suddenly jump to another. A specimen of this Tarsipes, sent me since 

 that time by Dr. Preiss, has confirmed the view I expressed in the last 

 year's Report respecting the systematic position of this highly remarkable 

 genus. 



PHYTOPHAGA. Petaurus has been increased by Gould 

 with a new species (Ann. Nat. Hist, x, p. 404), named by 

 him, Betidea Ariel. 



It comes from Port Essington, and approaches in size and proportions 

 nearest to B. bn-riccjjs, but is readily distinguished from it by its pale (light 

 gray) colour, and especially by the light yellow tinge of the under suface. 



Four new species of Kangaroo, Macropus wclanops (Ann. Nat. Hist, x, 

 p. 403), Halmat/irus Bluoe (xi, p. 386), Pctrogale inornata (x, p. 399), and 

 Petrogale concinna (xi, p. 385), have been copiously illustrated by Gould in 

 his monograph. 



