118 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Acrobates pygmaeus, Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vol. 
XXV., Pp. 405 (1817) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., 
p. 136 (1888). 
Petaurus pygmeus, Lesson, Dict. Class. d’Hist. Nat., vol. xiii, 
p. 289 (1828). 
Petaurus (Acrobates) pygmaeus, Waterhouse, in Jardine’s Natu- 
ralist’s Library, Mamm., vol. xi., p. 293 (1841). 
Dromicia frontalis, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc., N. South Wales, 
Sere, Vol. L; p. 1134 (1607), 
(Plate XVIII) 
Charagéors.-—Form very light and delicate ; fur soft, straight, 
and silky ; a well-defined naked area on the muzzle. General 
colour greyish-brown, the under-parts and inner sides of limbs 
white ; area round and in front of eyes brown; feet brown. 
Tufts of hairs present behind the eyes and inside the ears, the 
latter being fawn-colour on the outer sides anteriorly and 
white posteriorly ; margins of parachute fringed with longish 
hairs. Tail rather long, fawn-colour, with its extreme tip 
naked inferiorly and probably prehensile. Length of head 
and body about 3 inches; of tail nearly the same. 
Distribution—Queensland, to the south of latitude 20°, New 
South Wales, and Victoria. 
Habits—Resembling a Common Mouse in size, and hence 
known to the colonists as the Flying Mouse, or Opossum- Mouse, 
this little animal is one of the most elegant of the Australian 
Marsupials. At one time exceedingly numerous in the neigh- 
bourhood of Port Jackson, although comparatively rare in 
other parts of its habitat, it is, from its small size, but seldom 
seen, although individuals will at times come into the tents of 
those camping out in the bush. Beyond the fact that it is 
arboreal and volant, little seems to have been recorded of its 
