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manus black. The black hairs stop abruptly over the metacarpus, the digits 

 themselves being white. Just abov(» the wrist the white of the inner aspect of the 

 forearm trespasses on to the dorsal s\irfaee, making a prominent white patch, 

 about 1.1 mm. in diametc^r, on tlio lower part of the forearm. The hind limb 

 dark grey in the whole of its diameter in the tibial portion, save for a narrow strip 

 of white on the dorsal (anterior) aspect. From the ankle onwards the pes is 

 entirely black, both above and below, save for the presence of a few white hairs 

 over a space of about 5 mm. at the base of the nail of the elongated 4th digit. 



The base of the tail is fawn coloured, the basal area being succeeded by a 

 portion, 75 mm. in length, clothed by coarse black hairs, followed by a terminal 

 portion, 85 mm. long, clothed with long, coarse, white hairs; the terminal dorsal 

 crest projecting another 40 mm. 



A curious feature, which seems to have been overlooked in the description of 

 other species, is that the tail ends in a prominent horny process. 



Fig. 359. Tail of T. nigripes, to shoAV tlu' teniiiiial sjmr. 



The ears are enormously long, the auricle consisting of tAvo distinct portions, 

 a basal" tubular portion clothed in the whole of its circumference with faAvn- 

 coloured hairs, like those of the head and face ; this portion measures about 25 mm. 

 along its anterior aspect. The terminal leaf-like portion is almost entirely naked, 

 extremely thin, dark-grey in colour, and shining. In the living animal the blood 

 vessels are conspicuous and, as in some of the bandicoots, the leaf-like portion of 

 the auricle is punctate with little circular pits about 1 mm. in diameter. The 

 naked portion of the ear is 90 mm. in length. 



The eye is black. The mysticial vibrissae are arranged in five rows; the 

 upper and longer bristles being black, the lower and shorter ones white. The 

 longest measures 50 mm. There are two black supraorbital vibrissae ; the one is 

 long (45 mm.) and the other only about half that length. The genal *set is 

 represented by a tuft of six vibrissae, of which some are black and some are 

 white; the longest measures (iO mm. The ulnar carjial set is well developed, and 

 consists of three or more strong white bristles, of which the longest is 40 mm. 



Details of the pouch and nipples not known, as so far no female specimen 

 has been secured; presumably the condition is as in the other species. 



The skull is, in its general characters, much as in T. sagittu, but from that 

 form it is verv readilv distinguished in several details. The muscular ridges are 



