890 EOBEKT COLLETT, 



The hair on the feet and the tail is whitish. The whitish 

 transverse line on the haunclies is but slightly prominent, the chestnut 

 brown colour here shining strongly through. 



Some measureraents , taken from tbe mounted specimen, are as 

 follows : 



Length of body (head included) .... about 480 mm 



Length of tail 372 „ 



Length of ear (along the inner margin) .... 50 „ 

 Length of the bind foot (from heel to tip of claw) 174 „ 

 The ears are thin and semitransparent, not much smaller than 

 those of L. leporoides; their height, measured along the inner margin, 

 is about the same, as their distance from the angle of the mouth, and 

 they are contained a little over three times in the length of the bind 

 foot (in L. leporoides barely two and a half times). 

 The skull. 

 A. Length 91 mm, Breadth 53 mm, Length of the lower jaw 65 mm 



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Both Skulls belong to fullgrown individuals. The frontal crests 

 in the first specimen (which probably is a male) meet a short way 

 behind the frontalia, where there is already present a sagittal crest, 

 with which they join; in the second and larger specimen they first 

 meet somewhat in front of the os interparietale, and no sagittal 

 crest is to be found there. 



The frontalia are short, shorter than the nasalia, and somewhat 

 inflated anteriorly, by which the intermediate portion is made concave, 



The nasale in its posterior margin forms a slight arch or oblique 

 line, which is lowest on the sides, highest towards the median suture. 



The palate is furnished with irregulär foramina. In one skull 

 (of L. conspicillafus), described by Waterhouse (Nat. Hist. Mamm. I, 

 p. 192) , the length of which is 3 inches 4 lines (about 89 mm), 

 two pair of foramina were found, the one in the palatine bone, the other 

 in front of the palato-maxillary suture. In our two specimens from 

 Queensland the smaller one has the two foramina on each side con- 

 fluent into one, the front margin of which lies within the level of the 

 centre of m ^ ; in the larger specimen , the posterior pair of foramina 

 are irregulär, as the palatine bone shews several lesser perforations, 

 and the anterior is entirely wanting on the one side, and only traces 

 exist on the other. 



The bullae osseae are, (unlike those of the Halmafuri), pro- 



