1-Ib 



Fur of tli(> Ti])pei' part conspicuously liicoloureil, black for 

 nearly two-thirds of its length, the remainder being olive 

 bi'own, with the extreme tips darker. Fur of the throat 

 II nd flanks uniformly brownish white, of all the rest of the 

 under part lilack at base and brownish white at the end. 



Inhab. Western Australia. 



NvcToi'HiLUs MA.ioi;. The larger Nyctophile. 

 Plate 21, fig. 2. 



Mr. Tomes, since these figures were made, has described 

 three species from Australia ; iV. Timorensis, from W. Aus- 

 tralia, iV. Gouldii, from Moreton Bay, N. unicolor, from 

 Van Dienien's Land, and I am not quite sure to ■\\hich of 

 tliese species the above figure refers. 



Mystacixa tuberctlata. The Mystaciue. 

 Plate 22, fig. 1. 



Mystacina tuberculata. Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 34, 1843 ; 

 App. Diefnib. Trav. N. Z., 296, 1843 ; Zool. Vo;j. Sulphur 

 ii., 23; Tomes, P.Z.S., 1857, 138. 



Inhab. Xew Zealand. 



I at first thought this was the little Bat named and 

 figured as Ves2)crtilio tuhcrculata by Forster, collected 

 during Cook's voyages, the drawings of which are in the 

 lianksian Library, British Museum, and of which Lichten- 

 stein published Forster's MS. descriptions and notes in 

 1844, but Mr. Tomes, who has found in the British Museum 

 two kinds of Bats from New Zealand, believes that the one 

 which is a Seotopltilus is the one which Foi'ster described, 

 on account of the number of incisors lie indicates, and he 

 describes it as Scotophilustuhcrcu.ldtnH, P.Z.S., 1857, Ib^, pi. 

 43, and he also describes and figures the one that I have 

 described as Mystacina tuberculata, P.Z.S., 1857, 138, pi. 44. 



MoLOSSUS NORFOLKENSis. The Xortblk Island Bull-dog 



Bat. 



Plate 22, fig. 2. 

 Molossus australis, Gran; GoulJ, Muhuh. Austr. \u.,pl. 31. 



Antechinus fl.wipes. 

 Plate 26, fig. 2. 



Phascogalc riavi|ics, JVcJerh., I'.ZX, 1837, 75. 



Antechinus flavipes, Gould, Mamm. Austr. i., pi. 40 : 

 Krcft, P.Z.S., 1866, 432. 



Fur brownish yellow, intermi.xed with 1 ilack hair. Under- 

 side of body and limbs yellow. Throat whitish. Tail as 

 long as the body, blackish, beneath yellow, clothed with 

 short appressed hairs. 



Inhab. New South Wales north of Hunter's lii\er. 



Antechinus Stuartii, MacLeay, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 viii,, 242, has been thought to be identical with this species, 

 Waterh., N. H. Mamm. i., 419. 



Antechinus akfinis. 

 Plate 25, fig. 3. 



Phascogale affinis, Gray, App. Grey's Narrative, 406. 



Above brown, grizzled, with yellowish brown tips to the 

 hairs ; beneath grey-brown ; under fur lead colour. Tail 

 short. Male darker; length of body and head 61, tail 4i 

 inches. Female, length of body and head 41, tail 2| inches. 



Inhab. Tasman's Peninsular (Gould). 



Mr. Waterhouse considers this species and Phascogale 

 iiiinima varieties of Antechinus Jlavipes. 



Antechinus leucopus. 

 Plate 27, fig. 2. 



Phascogale leucopus. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., x., 

 1842, 261. 



Podabrus leucopus, Gould, Mamm. Austr. i., pi. 35. 



Fur grey, washed with blackish, head rather redder. Lips, 

 chin, throat, chest, inside of limbs, and feet white. Tail 

 slender, lower half white, upper blackish brown. Ears large. 



Inhab. Australia. 



This species is distinguished from P. leucogaster, Gray. 

 by the feet being white. 



Antechinus crassicauhatus. 

 Plate 26, fig. 1. 



Phascogale crassicaudata, Gould, P.Z.S., 1844, 105. 



Podabrus crassicaudatus, Gould, Mamm. Austr. i., pi. 47. 



Fur moderately long and soft, above ash coloured with a 

 yellow tint. Under-side of the body and feet pure white. 

 E;irs moderate, clothed with pale hairs, and with a large 

 blackish spot externally. Eyes encircled with blackisli 



