18/4.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON A NEW KANGAROO. 653 



5. Description of a New Species of Kangaroo. 

 By Dr. Albert Gunther, V.P.Z.S. 



[Eeceived October 28, 1874.] 



(Plate LXXVII.) 



The Trustees of the British Museum have obtained, by purchase, 

 the skin of a male Kangaroo from Cape Crafton, N. W. Australia ; 

 it belongs to an undescribed species, for which I propose the name 

 of 



Halmaturus apicalis, sp. nov. (Plate LXXVII.) 



Fur rather short and coarse, brown on the upper parts, with many 

 black or black-tipped hairs along the middle of the back, which ren- 

 ders this part of a darker colour than the sides. Reddish brown 

 prevails over the loins and halfway forwards on the sides, the shoul- 

 der, nape of the neck, and upper side of the head being of a greyish 

 brown. The hairs of all these parts are black or blackish at the 

 base. 



A broad blackish band from the nostril through the eye towards 

 the ear ; front of the ear-opening surrounded by a well-marked 

 bright brownish red spot. Head below the black band greyish white, 

 nearly white on the upper lip ; chin blackish ; throat greyish. The 

 outside of the ears thinly clothed with brownish red hairs and with 

 a narrow whitish margin ; inside of the ears very sparingly covered 

 with whitish hairs. 



Chest greyish like the throat ; but this colour passes gradually 

 into the bright rusty red of the dense woolly fur of the abdomen. 



Hairs of the upperarm and of the proximal half of the forearm 

 greyish, with whitish tips ; the remainder of this limb black. Hind 

 limb brownish grey, grizzled with black ; toes nearly black. 



Tail sparingly covered with short, stiff, black hairs, mixed with 

 brown ones near its base. The hairs are thickest along the median 

 line of its lower surface ; and in about the middle of the length of 

 this line a longitudinal whitish stripe appears, which is continued to, 

 and passes into the white termination of the tail (in the adult this 

 white extremity is 2^ inches long). 



Muffle naked in front ; ears short ; lower side of the tarsi naked, 

 with "papillary warts; nail of middle hind toe well developed. (Sub- 

 gen. Halmaturus.) 



in. lin. 



Length from tip of nose to root of tail 29 6 



„ of tail 24 



„ of head 5 6 



„ of ear 2 9 



„ of forearm and hand, including nail . . 8 



„ of tarsus, and middle toe and nail . . 9 6 



of nail of middle hind toe 1 (J 



