322 Prof. F. M'Coy on a new Species of Halmaturus. 



XLII. — On a new Species of Halmaturus from East Av^&alia. 

 By Frederick M'Coy, Professor of Natural Science in the 

 Melbourne University, and Director of the National Museum 

 of Victoria. 



Halmaturus Wilcoxi (M'Coy). 



Male. Fur long and soft, grey at the base (everywhere except 

 on the breast, where the base is whitish), of a rich dark brown 

 slightly grizzled with grey and black on the back (from some 

 hairs grey at base having a white ring beyond the middle, and 

 black tip), more uniform and slightly lighter on the shoulders, 

 back and sides of the neck, and becoming lighter still on the 

 cheeks, sides of the muzzle, and arms ; the anterior feet, chin, 

 a band from the nostril to the eye, and the mid line of the head 

 darker brown ; the apical two-thirds of the ears and the nape 

 of the neck very dark rich brown ; basal third of the ears, and 

 a rounded space in front of the base of them, and a spot over 

 each eye of a very bright rusty chestnut, chestnut, or bay ; a 

 very faint greyish band on hinder half of upper lip. The brown 

 of the back becomes more rusty on the flanks, changing to the 

 same bright rusty reddish brown as the base of the ears on the 

 back of the hind legs, and also, though not so bright, where 

 the brown of the flanks joins the greyish white of the belly, 

 front margin of hind legs, underside of base of tail, and throat 

 nearly up to the chin ; upper side of tail dark brown, grizzled 

 with black and white hairs like those of the back, but lighter in 

 general tint at the base, darker towards the end, and whitish at 

 the tip; underpart and sides of tail scaly and very sparingly set 

 with short fur-hairs. 



Female. Smaller and slightly paler than the male, and the 

 whitish fur of the breast as grey at the base as that of other 

 parts of the body. 



Male. Female. 



Length from tip of nose to tip of tail 3 feet 4 inches 



Locality : Richmond River, New South Wales. Collected by 

 Mr. Wilcox, who forwarded a male and female to the Museum 

 at Melbourne, as probably new. 



This beautiful species most nearly resembles the H. parma, 



