On Notoryctes /n North-ioest Australia. Ill 



vertebral scales on the posterior part of tlie body. L. articu- 

 lata, Cope, is described as having four pairs of chin-shields. 



I seize this opportunity to poinf out that Lepiognathus 

 copii, Gchr., is distinct from L. pavoninuy Schleg. It has 

 the scales in 15 rows, as stated by Gunther. The British 

 ]\luseuin has recently acquired a second specimen, from 

 Georgetown, Britifeh Guiana. 



XI. — Notoryctes in North-west Australia. 

 ^y Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by pertuissiou of the Trustees of the British Muaeuui.) 



In 1910 Mr. Stockton, the Keeper of the Post Office at 

 WoUal, on Ninety-mile beach, North-west Australia, captured 

 a specimen of a Mar.supial-inole {JSotorycles)^ an animal only 

 ])reviously known from Central and JSoutliern Australia. 

 The specimen was presented by a Mr. S. S. Fryor to the 

 AVest Austrahan Museum at Perth, where it has been 

 preserved till the ])iesent time. 



Now, however, l)y the great kindness of Messrs. Alexander 

 and Glauert of that Museum, I have been allowed to make 

 an examination of it and to compare it with our series of the 

 more southern Notoryctes typhlops. 



As is not surprising, consideiing that its locality is nearly 

 a thousand miles from that of A . typhlops, the north-western 

 lonn proves to be distinct specifically, and may be described 

 as follows : — 



Notoryctes cawinus, sp. n. 



Size rather less than in N. typhlops. General colour above 

 approximately '^ pinkish cinnnnion," sligliiiy ijaier below. 

 Clieeks, chin, and forearm more cinnamon-buff — in fact, 

 the colour is very niuch as in Stirlino''s figure * of A', typhlops. 

 Claws and nasal pad smaller tlian in the latter. 



Skull rather smaller than that of typhlops, the reduction in 

 size being mainly in the muzzle, wliich is both distinctly 

 sLorter and has a narrower nasal region, the breadth across 

 the end of the nasals about 2"4 mm. as compared with 3"2 or 



* Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austraha, 1691, pi. ii. 



