256 MAKStTPIAlIA. 



Peraiwlcs oucsiula (Shaw 1 ). 

 Syn. Didelphis obesula, Shaw 2 . 



llather smaller than the preceding, and with a shorter muzzle. 

 Hab. Australia and Tasmania. 



42675 a. Five specimens of the humerus, agreeing in size with those 

 of the present species ; from the caves of the Wellington 

 Valley, New South Wales. Their length is 0,0365. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. 



, Quoy & Gaimard 3 . 

 Including Perameles fasciata, Gray 4 . 

 Considerably smaller than the preceding. 

 Hab. South and West Australia and New South Wales. 



42675 b. A left humerus, agreeing in size with the corresponding 

 bone of a skeleton of the West-Australian variety in the 

 Museum ; from a cave in the Wellington Valley, New 

 South Wales. Length 0,028. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. 



42668. A slightly larger left humerus ; from the same locality. 



Same history. 



Perameles, sp. 



The lower molars equal in size to those of P. nasuta, but with an 

 external cingulum. 



Hab. New South Wales. 



42607 b. Fragment of the right ramus of the mandible, containing 

 two true molars ; from a cave in the Wellington Valley, 

 New South Wales. 

 Presented by the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1870. 



Genus PERAGALE Gray 5 . 

 Syn. Macrotis, Reid e . 



Anterior limbs considerably shorter than the posterior ; crowns of 

 molars short, or elongated and curved ; auditory bulk double. 



1 Naturalist's Miscellany, vol. viii. pi. 298 (circa 1793). Didelphis. 



3 Loe- eit. 3 Voyage d'Uranie, Zool. p. 56 (1824). 



4 Appendix to Grey's Journal of Two Expeditions in Australia, yol. ii. p. 407 

 (1841). 



6 Ibid. p. 401. Amended. 



6 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 131. Preoccupied by a genus of Coleoptera. 



