'-!'.' Hapalotis albipes, LicHe."*^rfqra ;9W«ob avhr erii ^o egbs 



'2. Hapalotis apicahs, Gould, n. s. '■;*' '^'^ '^'^''* 



rpi • ... , . „ ' •■ 'Une(r;j8 



Ihis new species is about the size of, and similar in colour to, 

 H. alhipes, but it has larger ears, and its feet, which are perfectly 

 white, as in that animal, are much more delicately formed, and tbe 

 tail is nearly destitute of the long brushy hairs towards the tip j the 

 eye is also much smaller. 



Face and sides of the neck blue-grey ; upper part of the head, space 

 between the ears, the ears and upper parts of the body, pale brown 

 interspersed with numerous fine black hairs ; under surface white ; 

 flanks mingled grey and huffy white ; fore feet white, with an oh- 

 lique mark of dark brown separating the white from the greyish 

 brown of the upper surface ; hinder tarsi and feet white ; basal three- 

 foiirths of the tail brown, apical fourth thinly clothed with white 

 hairs. 



inches. 



Length from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail 8 



of the tail 8- 



of the tarsus and toes 1^ 



from the tip of the nose to the base of the ears If 



of the ears li 



^8 



3. Hapalotis hirsutus, Gould. 



Mus hirsutus, Gould in Proc. Zool. Soc. part x. 1842, p. 12. 



Since this smgular species was brought from Port Essington by 

 Mr. Gilbert, at the close of 1841, a second and more perfect indi- 

 vidual, also from the northern coast of Australia, has been deposited 

 in the British Museum. 



This is the largest species of the genus. 



4. Hapalotis cqnditor, Gould in Sturt's Narr. of Exp. to Cen,- 



tral Australia, vol. i. pi. in p. 120 ; vol. ii. App. p. /. 



5. Hapalotis longicaudatus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. partxii 



p. 104. ^ 



6. Hapalotis Gouldii, Gray, App. to Grey's Trav. in Austraha, 



vol. ii. pp. 404, 413; List of Mamm. in Brit. Mus. Coll 

 p. 116. 



H. Richardsonii, Gray, on specimens in Brit. Mus. 

 H. macrotis. Gray, on specimens in Brit. Mus. 

 H. Mitchellii, Gould, Mamm. of Austraha, part i. pi. 15. 

 Hab. Western and Southern Australia. 



7. Hapalotis murinus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. part xiii. 1845 



p. 78. 

 Hab. South Austraha and the Liverpool Plains in New South Wales. 



8. Hapalotis cervinus, Gould, n. s. 



The whole of the head, upper surface and sides of the body, of the 

 most delicate fawn colour, interspersed with numerous fine black hairs 



