On a CoUection of Mammals from Central aiid Nortliern Queensland. {)1Ö 



The nasalia are narrow in front, broad behind, and their hinder 

 margin fornis a pretty deep, althougli rounded angle between the 

 frontalia. Their breadth in front is less than half of their greatest 

 breadth behind, 



The interorbital space is very concave, and the profile of the 

 skull is also somewhat depressed at the hinder margin of the orbita. 

 The two frontal crests are very distinct, and have a strongly curved 

 course. They first converge a little belbre the commencement of the 

 parietalia, Avithout, however, joining, then diverge, but at last again 

 turn in and cut through the outer portion of the interparietale, where- 

 upon they unite with the upper shaq) zygomatic margin of the tem- 

 porale. 



The bullae osseae are almost imperceptible, but the whole of the 

 back portion of the temporale is itself rather strongly inflated. 



The palatine bones are not perforated ; just in front of the suture 

 with the maxillaria, the palate, however, presents traces of a punctual 

 foramen. 



The foramina incisiva are unusually small (length 3,5 mm), and 

 only extend backwards to the hinder margin of the canine. Only the 

 anterior half is formed by the intermaxillaria , the posterior by the 

 maxillaria, 



On the lower jaw no minute external opening into the inferior 

 dental canal is visible. 



Intermaxillare , comparatively jevenly wide. The suture with the 

 maxillary forms a rather wavy line, which meets the nasal suture con- 

 siderably before the middle. 



The teeth are comparatively strong, and form an almost uninter- 

 rupted series. Only p i in the upper jaw is separated from c by an 

 extremely slight space, but pressed close to _p 2 . in the lower jaw all 

 the teeth are closely set. In the upper jaw, *2 is very broad, with 

 double as broad a base, as ja, which is very small, and is the smal- 

 lest of all the teeth. 



The canine is but slightly larger than i 3 and p 1 , but is not 

 longer than these. 



Of the premolars, p i is small, about the same as i 3 . ^ 2 is some- 

 what larger, than p 1 , has two root sand two cusps ; p^ is the largest, 

 but considerably narrower than m 1 , has one large cusp in the middle, 

 a smaller one in front, and two quite small ones behind. 



The 4 molars are of normal constructiou , but very broad and 

 thick. The base of m 1 is thus 4,5 mm. 



