MAMMALIA. 619 



Comp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Memoire sur un nomeau genre de 

 Mammif. a bourse, &c., Ann. du Mus. iv. pp. 56 — 65, PI. 44, 45. 



Sp. Perameles nasuta Geoffr. 1. 1. PI. 45, Gder. Icon., Mamm. PI. 20, fig. 3, 

 Waterh. Nat. Lihr. PI. 13, the handicost; New South Wales, &c. In a 

 species, larger than the others and nearly of the size of a rabbit, the ears 

 are particularly long and the tail, furnished with long hairs, is black and at 

 the point white ; the thumb on the hind feet is wholly wanting : sub-genus 

 Macrotis Eeid, Perarjalea Gray, Perameles larjotis Waterh. Natter. Lihr. 

 PI. 12, Mamm. i. PI. 13, fig. r, Gould Mamm. of Austr. i. PL 12; this 

 species lives in Western Australia. For other species compare Water- 

 house 1. 1. 



Choeropus Ogilby. (Teeth of the preceding genus.) Feet 

 slender, anterior didactylous, posterior with pollex none, fourth toe 

 alone insistent, the rest small, apart, all unguiculate. Tail short 

 slender. Ears elongate. 



Sp. Chceropus castanotis Gray, Gould Mamm. of Austr. i. PI. 13, Waterh. 

 Mamm. i. PI. 13, fig. 2; Southern Australia; a small animal 9^ inches 

 long exclusive of the tail, which is 4 inches long. It is the only species 

 of marsupial of which the fore feet have fewer thau 5 toes. 



Family VI. Dasyurina. Incisors, canines, and molars in both 



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jaws; incisors 77, canines longer than incisors. Anterior feet pen- 



tadactylous ; posterior in some pentadactylous, with pollex very 

 short and clawless, in others tetradactylous ; second toe separate 

 from third. Tail not prehensile, hairy. 



3-3 4_4 



Phascologale Temm. Spurious molars q — 5 5 true -r — ^ , crown 



with conical, acute tubercles, the last upper small, transverse. 

 Tail with hair short or penicillate towards the point. 



Small mammals of which some species have no pouch, the young being 

 protected by the hair alone of the body. Sp. Phascoloyale penicillaia 

 Temm., Didelphis penicillata Shaw, Dasyurus penicillatus Geoffu., White 

 New South Wales, PI. 58, p. 281, Schreb. Sdicr/eth. Tab. 152 b6, Gould 

 Mamm. of Austr. i. PI. 6; the skull and teeth figured by Temm. Monogr. 

 I. PI. VII. figs. 9—12; length about from 15" to 17", of which the tail 

 makes 7" or 8"; a tuft of hair at the end of the tail; this species is 

 spread over a great part of Australia, with exception of the north, and 

 lives in trees. The two middle upper incisors are longer than the rest. 

 Such however is not the case in all the species, for example, not in Phasco- 

 logale 7iiinima Temm., Dasyurus minimus Geoffr., Schreb. Sdugelh. Tab. 

 152 Be, from Van Diemen's Land, in Phascologale minutissima WagN. 



