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44. JPseudochirus (JBLemibelideus) leniuroides (Coll.) 1884 



(Typus). 



Phalangista {Hemibelideus) lemuroides Coll., in : Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1884, p. 385, pl. 31, and fig. 5—6, (1884). 



Diagn. Für soft, rather long; ears of medium length, 

 eyes small. Thetail cylindrical, clothed withlong pro- 

 jecting hairsto the tip. 



The colour (female): above, and thewholeof the 

 head dark greyish brown; under surface a dirty yello- 

 wish grey. Tail black. 



The skull broad, as in Petaurista. Nasalia rather 

 Short; in the suture with the frontalia they form a cen- 

 tral angle, open totheback, and two small angles, open 

 in front. The intermaxillary suture divides the nasal 

 suture about the middle. Auditory bullae, rathersmall. 

 The palate has two small round fo ram. palatina, and 

 long foram. incisiva. 



Os sacrum, formed of 3 vertebrae. Scapula, trian- 

 gularly pointed. 



In the lower jaw, c and the 2 front premolars are 

 wanting. 



The dentition (in both specimens): 

 » f, c^, i) f, m I (34). 



Number of vertebrae: C. 1, D. 13, L. 6, S. 2+1, C. 27. 



A. Half grown. Young of B (skin with skull). 



B. Female. Upper Herbert River, 20^*^ Dec. 1882 (skin with 



skull and incomplete skeleton). 



C. Herbert River, Febr. 1884 (incomplete skeleton with skull). 

 The first individual obtained was a female, with a large young 



one (A) in its pouch; the latter, which was of the size of a mature 

 Petaurus sciureus, resembled the mother exactly. Later on another 

 individual was obtained, the skeleton alone being preserved. 



Concerning this species Dr. L. has stated, in: Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond. 1884, p. 407, that its home is in the scrub, from Gowry Creek, 

 Herbert River, and northwards, and it appears to be numerous there. 

 It is hunted by the natives, who call it „Yabby". 



In the structure of its feet it belongs to the true Pseudochiri, 

 but differs from all of them in its coating of hair, this being nowhere 

 closely adpressed , but woolly even on the snout and the back of the 

 hands. The tail is rather cylindrical, and evenly bushy, as the hairs 

 are long and projecting out to the very end, almost as in Phalan- 

 gista vulpecula. 



