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Note.—As the only specimen known is mounted it is impossible 
to give any description of the palms and soles and their pads. In 
the type specimen, according to Krefft, the fourth premolar is 
absent, but seeing that it is present in all other members of the 
subfamily (except P. thorbeckiana, in which it is a variable 
character), this is doubtless an individual variation or peculiarity. 
Genus V.—DASYURUS, #. Geoffroy (1796). 
Body spotted. Form stout or slender, graceful. Ears long 
and narrow. Tail long, evenly- and thickly-haired throughout. 
Feet plantigrade. Toes subequal, with sharp, curved claws ; 
hallux very small or wanting. Soles granulated, nearly or wholly 
naked. Pouch opening vertically downwards. Mamme six or 
eight. 
+, 1 2.3.4 i 1.0.3.0 1.2.3.4 3 19 
Dentition.—I. 123 (Ot p 12. 1.0.3.0? M. i234 x 2=42., 
Habits.—Terrestrial and arboreal; carnivorous and _insecti- 
vorous. 
Note.—The “ Native Cats” of the Australian region take the 
place of the Mustelide of the pale- and ne-arctic regions, and are 
equally destructive to poultry &c. 
1, DasyuRUS HALLUCATUS, Gould (1842). 
North-Australian Native Cat. 
Size small; form slender. Fur short and coarse. General 
color above yellowish-brown spotted with white; below pale gray 
or yellow. ars large, thinly clothed with fine yellow hairs. 
Hallux present. Sole-pads smooth, well-defined, and transversely 
striated. Tail long, rather short-haired, its base colored like the 
body, but unspotted, the remainder black. Mamme eight. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about eleven inches ; tail about 
eight inches. 
Habitat.—Tropical Australia. 
References.—Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 269; Gould, Mamm. 
Austr. i. pl. ii. 
2. DasyuRuUS GEOFFROYI, Gould (1840). 
Black-tailed Native Cat. 
Size medium; form slender, Fur thick and soft. General 
color above olive-gray tinged with rufous and spotted with white; 
below white. Lars large, their backs brown with white margins. 
Hallux present. Soles granulated, the pads marked by rounded 
unstriated prominences. Tail long and rather bushy, the basal 
half above and fourth below colored like the back, but unspotted, 
the remainder black. Mamme six. 
