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Length of fore feet and nails | inches. 



„ of hind feet and nails ij „ 



Circumference of chest 6 „ 



Length of skull If „ 



Width of skull l^\ „ 



Length of nasal bones f „ 



„ of palatine bones ^ „ 



„ of lower jaw 1 „ 



Width of interorbital space x"^ „ 



Lower jaw very deep ; ramus broad. Coronoid process, 

 short and acuminate ; condyloid process, narrow and hori- 

 zontal ; descending ramus deeply emarginate ; posterior 

 angle broad and rounded. The anterior superior molar has 

 two blunt cusps, a transverse band of enamel, and a posterior 

 cusp. The central and posterior molars have each a trans- 

 verse band of enamel and two blunt cusps. The inferior 

 molars have transverse folds of enamel, without cusps. 

 Incisors short and stout. 



Habitat. — Long's Plains, from T. B. Moore, Esq. 



NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN ANTECHINI 



AND MITS, 



By Edmund T. Higgins, M.E.C.S., Eng., and William 

 F. Petteed, C.M.Z.S. 



[Eead Hfh May, 1883.] 

 Antechinus Concinnus. 

 Form slender. Fur moderately soft, brownish- grey on 

 the upper surface, hairs bluish- grey at the base, annulated 

 with pale brown in the middle, and tipped with darker 

 brown ; the whole surface interspersed with moderately long 

 black hairs. The fur on the sides and under surface of a 

 pale rusty yellow ; the same tint extends round the back of 

 the ear, forming also a narrow line above it. Upper surface 

 of tail clothed with hair of the same colour as the back ; 

 under surface pale rusty yellow ; the apical portion dusky. 

 Ears very broad and moderately long, clothed internally and 

 externally with yellowish brown hairs. Feet pale rusty 

 yellow. The only specimen we have seen is in the collection 

 of the Eoyal Society of Tasmania, and somewhat resembles 

 the "minima" of G-eoffroy, and may ultimately prove to 

 be only a variety of that species : but the light marks above 

 and behind the ear are so pronounced that we cannot imagine 

 they would have escaped notice if present in Geoff roy's 

 specimen, we have therefore provisionally named it " con- 

 cinnus." 



