r&2 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
in accordance with the exigencies of the arid sandy country 
inhabited alike by Axtechinomys and Hafpalotts. 
I. JUMPING POUCHED MOUSE. ANTECHINOMYS LANIGER. 
Phascologale lanigera, Gould, Mamm. Australia, vol. i., pl. 
XXXill. (1856). 
Antechinomys laniger, Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1866, p. 434; 
Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 309 (1888). 
Characters.—Size small ; form slender and graceful ; fur long, 
soft, and fine. General colour slaty-grey ; under-parts white ; 
a fawn-coloured patch behind each ear. Ears suboval, almost 
entirely covered with short, fawn-coloured hairs. Lower por- 
tions of limbs, inclusive of the feet, white. Tail very long and 
slender, short-haired and fawn-coloured, except the terminal 
inch, which is tufted and black. Length of head and body 
about 3% inches; of tail 5 inches. 
Distribution.—T he interior of New South Wales and Southern 
Queensland. 
It may be mentioned that, through ignorance of their habits, 
a pair of these beautiful little animals are represented in Gould’s 
“‘ Mammals of Australia ” as disporting themselves on the bough 
of a tree, whereas, as we have said, they are purely terrestrial. 
This plate, which is also by no means remarkable for the 
accuracy with which the animals are portrayed, has been repro- 
duced as a woodcut in Brehm’s “‘ Thierleben.” 
THE MARSUPIAL ANT-EATERS. GENUS MYRMECOBIUS. 
Myrmecobius, Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1836, p. 69. 
The beautiful and curious little animal, which forms the sole 
representative of this genus, differs so remarkably from all the 
other members of the Dasyurida, that it is clearly entitled to 
form a sub-family (AZyrmecodiina), if, indeed, as many zoologists 
