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Records of the S.A. Museum 



the ])()steri()r halt', or rather more. Tail with the Ijhick portion as h)ii<r as, or 

 h)ii«i'er than, the "wliite portion. 



Cranial Characters. Sknll lar^re; l)asal h'liutli !)() imii. or juore. All 

 muscniar i-id<i'es and crests extremely well marked. The posterior (molar) 

 portion of tlie palate distinctly rounded in old line: the molars ari'ano'ed in 

 crescentie series. The posterior end oF the palate extendin<i' well behind the 

 last molar teeth. The posterior palatine \aeuities rea<di from about the central 

 point of the ndddle prenu)lar to about the eeidral poiid of the third molar. 

 Tlie nasal bones ex! end back\var(ls so 1ha1 their ])os1ei'ior ends almost reach a line 

 joining' the hu-hrymal foramina. See figs, ^l^^ 8.14, 3.16, and 3.i7. 



Dental Characters. ^lolars large, intervals between the lignal marg-ins of 

 adjacent ledh very ^inall. I<'rom Ihc fi'onl of the canine to the back of M* is a 

 distance of 42 mm. or more. 



Distribution. The typo specimen was described as conung from "Van 

 Diemen's Land," but tliis was in error, the animal having been procured in 

 the SAvan River district of Western Anstralia. 



The species still exists in Western Anstralia. 



In South Australia, tlK)ugh it was formerly abundant in the southern 

 portion of the State, it is now either extinct or on the verg-e of extinction. 



Fig. 3.56. Tlie pnstcricir ]iorti.on of the imlate in (A) T. .sat/ilid, (B) T. hifioiis, (C) 



T. nii/ripcs. 



Recently, owing' to the kindness of Mr. Heber Longnum. I have had the 

 oppoi'tunity of exaudning a tyjncal living s])ecimen from (Tjueensland. 



It must not be imagined that 7'. hupit's is the i-ei)resen1ative of the genus in 

 Western .\usti'alia, ami that 7'. s(i<j;fta is the rei)resentative in South Australia, 

 an impr(^ssi()n which is rather easily g-ained from Thomas's 190.") paper; for 



