572 ON A NEW SPECIES OF KANGAROO (DORCOPSIS CHALMERSIl), 



"All the hair covering the space bounded in the front by a line 

 "running transversely across the parietal region, and behind by two 

 "lines joining the middle line between the shoulders to form a right 

 "angle, seven inches behind the occiput and extending, forward and 

 "outward to the shoulder joint, being directed forward, whilst the 

 "genei'al body covering of hair is directed normally backward." 



Eyes large, with very distinct eyelashes, Iris dark brown. 



Ears rather narrow, covered inside with very tine hair. 



Muzzle divided in the middle line by a perpendicular groove and 

 the margin of the lips naked. Instead of 4 large conspicuous 

 glandular hair-follicles in the middle-line over the laryngeal region 

 of Dorcopsis luctuosa, shown on pi. VIII., in Garrod's paper, there 

 are in D. Chalmersii only 3 of them arranged to form a triangle. 

 (Fig. 2.) (1) Some long hairs are also found between the conspicuous 

 hair-follicles and the underlips. Similar hair-follicles appear as 

 well over the upper eyelid (over the inner canthus) and three larger 

 ones under the outer canthus. (Fig. 1.) 



The skull of Dorcopsis Chalmersii resembles that of D. luctuosa. 



Length of the skull 90 mm. (3, 6 inch.) 



Greatest breadth from Zygoma to Zygoma... 46 mm. (1, 8 inch.) 



The Palatine Foramina. Two large ones on each side with 

 several smaller behind. 



Teeths of the upper jaw. (Fig. 5.) 



about which I was informed by Mr. W. Macleay, that the skin for the 

 specimen in question, was quite fresh and in the best order when it was 

 stuffed, so that no artificial manipulation during the stuffing could have 

 produced an abnormal diversity in the direction of the hair. 



The hair-ridge (where the hair of the head meets the hair of the neck) is 

 in Osphranter rufus (of the Macleay-MuseumJ on the occiput, just behind the 

 ears; and the converging point, between the shoulders, is IS inches behind 

 the occiput. On two other specimens of Osphranter rufus in the Australian 

 Museum, I found, however, the hair turned backwards. These two contra- 

 dicting statements leave therefore the question about the direction of the 

 hair of the neck of O. rufus open. 



(1) I do not think, however, that the number and position of the glandular 

 hair-follicles presents a constant character for a species. 



