12c 



liairs. Tail short, much swollen, especially in the middle, 

 and clothed throughout with minute pale hairs. 



Inhab. Western Australia. 



Size of the common mouse, and coloured like }fiiti 

 si/lvaticus. 



Antechinus albipes. 

 Plate 27, fig. 1. 



l^hascogale albipes, Waterh., P.Z.S., 1842, 48. 



Podabrus albipes, Gould, Mamm. Austr. i., j)l. 43. 



Fur extremely soft, u])per part of body brownish, the 

 liairs deep slate colour at the base, annulated with yellow, 

 and with a black tip. Under-side of body greyish white, 

 liairs deep grey with white ti]is. Feet white. Tail long, 

 covered with many minute hairs, brownish above and paler 

 beneath. 



Inhab. Western Australia. 



Antechinus Swainsonii. 

 Plate 25, fig. 1. 



Phascogale Swainsonii, Waterh., Mag. Nut. Hid. iv., 304' 

 Antechinus Swainsonii, Gould, Mamm. Austr. i., ^j/. 34. 



Fur long, and moderately soft. Above brown, deeper on 

 the liinder part of the back. Hairs annulated, and tipped 

 with yellowish. Feet uniform dusty brown. Tail clothed 

 with small appressed dusty brown liairs. 



Inhab. Van. Diemen's Land. 



Antechinus leucogaster. 

 Plate 25, fig. 2. 



Phascogale leucogaster, Gray, Apj). Grci/n Narrative ii., 

 407. 



Antechinus leucogaster, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mm., 

 99 ; Gould, Mamm. Austr., i., pi. 38. 



Fur rather soft, above dark brownish grey, tinted with 

 rusty brown behind, and beset with numerous fine black 

 liairs. Ears sparingly clothed with minute pale coloured 

 hairs. Chin and under-surface greyish white. Tail dusky, 

 darker at apex. 



Inhab. W. Australia. 



Antechinus apicalis. Gray, List. Mamm. Brit. Mva., 99; 

 Gould, Mamm. Austr. i., pi. 39. 



Fur above reddish brown, interspersed with numerous 

 lilack hairs, witli white tips. Outside of fore and hind legs 

 rufous, Chin and beneath whitLsh. Tail like back, blacker 

 at tip, covered with rigid hairs. 



Inhab. W. ami S. Australia. 



Phascogale calurus. 

 Plate 26, fig. 3. 



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

 Phascogale calura, Gould, Mamm., Austr., pi. 32. 



Cinereous, under-side and feet white, indistinctly yellow 

 tinted. Tail longer than the body, the basal half with short 

 rufous hairs, ai>ical part with long black liairs. F]ars large, 

 with yellow liairs at the base. 



Inhab. Western Australia. 



Allied to P. penicillata, but smaller. 



Hapalotis -melanura. 

 Plate 29, fig. 2. 



Hapalotis melanura, Gould, P.Z.S.; Gray, List. Mamm. 

 Brit. J/«s., 1843, 115. 



Fur harsh. Upper surface and sides sandy brown, with 

 numerous long black hairs, the surface buffy white. Tail 

 black. 



Mr. Gould has described a somewhat similar species, 

 which the British Museum has received, collected by Mr. 

 Fdsey in the interior of Australia, under the name (if 

 Hapalotis hemileucMra, P.Z.S., 1857, 243, it diflers from 

 H. melanura in the tip of the tail being white. 



Hapalotis albipes. 

 Plate 28, fig. 1. 



Hapalotis albipes, Ijichtenstein, Darstelluny, pi. 29 ; Gould, 

 Mamm. Austr. in., pi. 1. 



Conilurus constructor, Ogilhy, Linn. Traiis. xiii., 125. 



Inhab. New Holland. 



Antechinus apicalis. 

 Plate 27, fig. 3. 



Phascogale apicalis, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 

 508. 



Hapalotis longicaudata. 

 J'late 29, fig. 1. 



Hapalotis longicaudata, Gould, P.Z.S., 1844, 104; Mamm. 

 Austr. iii., ^/. 8. 



