140 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
III. LONG-NOSED BANDICOOT. PERAMELES NASUTA. 
Perameles nasuta, Geoffr, Ann. Muséum, vol. iv., p. 62 
(1804); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus. p. 242 
(1888). 
Perameles lawsoni, Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage Uranie, p. 57 
(1824). 
(Plate XX/L.) 
Characters.—Size and form as in the preceding ; fur coarse, 
rough, and slightly spinose; muzzle very long and slender. 
General colour dull olivaceous brown, without stripes on the 
rump; under-parts white, as are the inner sides of the limbs 
and the feet. Ears long, narrow, and pointed. Soles of hind 
feet granulated, black and thinly haired behind, white and 
naked in front. ‘Tail of moderate length, brown above, paler 
beneath. Eight teats. Length of head and body about 16 
inches ; of tail 5 inches. 
Distribution.—LEastern Australia, 
Mr. Thomas remarks that although in its long ears, and the 
general structure of its skull and the form of its lower jaw, this 
species clearly belongs to the same group as the two preced- 
ing ones, yet in its spiny fur, the absence of stripes on the 
rump, and the characters of the palate and the so-called bullz 
in the auditory region of the skull, it approaches so nearly to 
some of the Papuan species as to forbid the splitting up of the 
genus. | 
There appears to be nothing special recorded in the habits of 
the species, which differs from the facts already mentioned 
under the heading of its allies, 
IV. LONG-TAILED BANDICOOT. PERAMELES LONGICAUDA. 
Perameles longicauda, Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Genova, 
vol. viil., p. 335 (1876). 
