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3. SMINTHOPSIS LEUCOPUS, Cray, sp. (1842). 
White-footed Pouched Mouse. 
Size medium; form slender. Fur close, fine, and straight. 
General color above uniform dark grayish-brown or mouse-color, 
with no prominent markings; below white. Ears large and 
broad, their backs uniform slaty-gray. Hands and feet pure white. 
Palms finely granulated, with six pads. Soles finely hairy 
posteriorly, coarsely granulated anteriorly ; the pads small, four 
in number, and finely striated transversely. Tail moderate, 
slender, shorter in southern than in extreme northern specimens, 
gray or brown above, white below. Mamme? 
Dimensions.—Head and body about four inches; tail in southern 
examples about three and a half, in northern about four inches, 
Habitat.—Eastern Australia from Cape York to Tasmania. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 302, pls. xxiii. figs. 5 (ear ), 
6 (sole), xxv. figs. 7 (teeth), 8 and 9 (skull); Gould, Mamm. Austr. 
i. pls. xxxv. (S. leucopus), xxxvi. (S. ferruginetfrons ). 
4. SMINTHOPSIS VIRGINLE, De Tarragon, sp. (1847). 
Striped-faced Pouched Mouse. 
Size large. Fur rather short, very soft and silky. General 
color above grizzled gray; below white or pale yellow. Face sandy 
rufous, ornamented with a central and on each side a lateral black 
longitudinal line. Cheeks, sides of neck, and basal ear-tufts bright 
rufous. Ears very large and nearly naked. Outside of upper 
arms and thighs like the back; rest of limbs white. Sole-pads 
probably similar to those of S. Jewcopus. Tail short-haired, dark 
brown above, paler below. Mamme ? 
Dimensions.—Head and body about five inches ; tail about the 
same. 
Habitat.—Herbert River District, Queensland. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 300; Collett, P.Z.S. 1886, 
p- 548, pl. lx. (animal, skull and teeth ). 
Genus [V.—PHASCOLOGALE, Zemmuinck (1827). 
Body unspotted. Form slender and graceful. Ears rounded. 
Tail long; bushy, crested, or nearly naked. Feet broad and short. 
Toes subequal, with sharp, curved claws ; hallux present, short 
and clawless. Soles naked, granulated, with five transversely- 
striated pads ; the hallucal pad often divided into two. Pouch 
practically obsolete. Mamme four, six, eight, or ten. 
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Dentition.—I. 123” (Se Dp Ps 1.0.3.2 M. i234 x 2= 46. 
Habits.—Arboreal ; insectivorous. 
Note.—The fourth premolar is absent in P. cristicaudata. 
