

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HAPALOTIS, 

 (H. BOWERI) FROM NORTH WEST AUSTRALIA. 



By Dr. E. Pierson Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c. 



Hapalotis Boweri, sp. nov. 



Plate XVIII. 



Adult male. — The hair appears to be of one kind only, and is of 

 a light grey pencilled with longer black hairs on the upper surface 

 of the body and limbs ; from slightly in front of the ears, down 

 the back of the head, and central portion of the back, is a broad, 

 distinct, but irregular band of golden brown, rufescent on the nape, 

 and on the base of the tail for about an inch from its root ; from 

 thence for about one-sixth of its length, the tail is blackish. For 

 the remainder of its length the tail is quite white — almost bare in 

 the central portion, but with the hairs becoming longer, until it 

 ends in a well-defined brush of long white hairs ; the scaly rings are 

 visible for about three-fourths of the whole length, the upper and 

 under surface of the hands and feet, and the whole of the under 

 surface of the body is white. Whiskers black, their tips extending 

 to the shoulders ; a narrow black ring round the eye. Ears brown, 

 almost naked, the tips rounded. Total length to root of tail, 11 

 inches; tail to end of vertebrae, 12 inches ; extent of reddish-brown 

 mark at the root of tail, 1 inch ; of the black patch following, 2 

 inches ; the brush of hair at the end of the tail extends 1 inch 

 beyond the last vertebra. Distance from snout to eye, 1 '2 inches ; 

 distance from snout to base of the ear, 2 *2 inches ; the ear in 

 length along the back portion, 1 inch ; width across base in front, 

 05 inch; hind foot, 2*1 inches; fore foot, 1 inch. 



