PERAMELES GUNNII. 15? 



pointed, the posterior edge slightly emarginated ; 

 tail very short. The colouring of the upper parts 

 of the body consists of a mixture of black and yel- 

 low; the general tint of the sides of the body is 

 very pale brownish-yellow, but there are scattered 

 black hairs ; the under parts of the body, the lips, 

 and the tail, are white : a whitish band crosses the 

 hinder portion of the back, but is divided in the 

 middle of the back by a dark line which runs down 

 to the root of the tail ; behind the first band, and 

 on either side of the central line, are three oblique 

 whitish bands; the two hindermost, w^hich are 

 situated close to the root of the tail, are almost 

 longitudinal in their direction, and rather indistinct ; 

 the spaces between the bands are about equal in 

 width to the bands themselves, and are of a deeper 

 hue than other parts, — they are in fact, black, 

 slightly grizzled with yellowish ; the fore part and 

 outer side of the fore- legs are grey ; the outer side 

 of the hinder-legs is also grey in the middle ; the 

 feet are white; the hinder half of the tarsus is 

 covered beneath with blackish hairs ; the ears are 

 covered with minute hairs, those on the inner side 

 are yellow-white ; on the outer side they are yel- 

 low, excepting on the fore part, where there is a 

 black patch — at the base there is another blackish 

 patch; the hairs on the tail are short, stiff, and 

 adpressed; on the back all the hairs are grey at 

 the base, some are ochreous at the tip, and others 

 are black ; on the back the black and yellow colours 

 are in about equal proportions ; on the hinder half 



