Art. XXII. — Preliminary Notice of two neiv Species of 

 Marsjipials Jrovi Central Australia. 



By Baldwin Spencer 



(Professor of Biology in the University of Melbourne). 

 [Read 8th November, 1894.] 



The following is a brief description of two new forms ctf 

 Marsupials obtained in Central Australia during the visit of 

 the Horn Scientific Expedition to the Macdonnell Ranges. The 

 full descriptions, together with illustrations, are reserved for 

 the volume in which it is intended to publish the complete 

 results of the expedition. 



(1) Phascologale macdonnellensis. 



Size medium. Fur somewhat coai'se. General colour of back 

 dull greyish-brown with a well-marked chestnut patch behind 

 each ear. Ventral surface grey. The eye is, more or less, sur- 

 rounded by a light coloured ring, and a light line runs along the 

 upper and under jaws bordering the mouth. 



Ears rounded, clothed inside and out with short hairs, reaching 

 when laid forward to about the centre of the eye. 



Hands and feet grey. Palms with six striated pads, the proxi- 

 mal half of the pollical pad curved, and with the concavity 

 facing towards the pollex ; the proximal outer pad V-shaped, 

 with the apex pointing towards the lingers, the inner leg of the 

 V being slightly longer than the outer. 



Soles naked, except under the heel where they are hairy ; 

 granulated ; hallucal pad divided into two ; hallux reaching 

 slighfly further than the proximal end of the anterior pads. 

 Pads, six in all, and striated. 



Tail shorter than the head and body combined, and notably 

 stout in its proximal half, tapering rapidly about the middle of 

 its length, and from this gradually to the tip. Incrassated. 

 Covered with faii-ly long stift' liairs. In colour somewhat lighter 



