1880.] MR. E, R. ALSTON ON ANTECHINOMYS. 459 



The intestine is perfectly simple and is 6 80 inches Ion- or little 

 Ttion inP:?/'^ ^^"^^^' o/the animal; I find a siS^'ilar pr ! 

 thL "hree L- r ° p""f ' ^".'^ '" Antechinus swaiLni more 



Liver oi Antechinomys. 



The /^-t,^,- (fig. 4) resembles that of its allies, the right lateral 

 lobe being unfissured, while the left is deeply cleft. A gall-bladde 

 IS present and the caudate lobe is well developed. 



Conclusions. 

 Before considering the results of the above comparisons, it will be 



In 8J7 Temmmck established the genus Phascoaale' Tmnrp 



■ luJT'' T'i^ P^a^ooloyaleX the type'being iCS;hy^';Zt 



cillatus of Shaw. Antechinus was founded by MacLeay oT\ 



drawing and incorrect description of an animal which he at Jrs? 



believed to be an Insectivore ^ but when he obtained a skeleton 



adord'bf Mr W ? T^^ '"•" l^hascologale K It was o^^^ 

 aaopted by Jlr. Waterhouse as a "section" of the latter genus 

 including the species which have the tail covered throughJuf wUh 

 hort hair ^ but it has been generally accepted, and fuitl er 

 characters have been pointed by Mr. Krefft ^ Poiabrus appear 

 to have been first used by Mr. Gould for the slender-footed Thai 

 cologale crassicaudatus, but without being chan.cterized ^ Mr 

 Waterhouse did not recognize it even as a " section ; " and Mr Krefft 

 only accepts It with the proviso that he "cannot ascertain the ue 

 characters beyond what Mr. Waterhouse tells us, that t com- 

 prises the PhascogalcB with slender feet." He adds, howevTr 

 some characters of his own, one being " Canines small, Zuom 

 exceed.ng the largest premolar in size ; "but this is a point in which 



lodabrus At the same time, as already stated, Mr. Krefft 

 proposed the name Antechinomys for the Phascoloyale lanigeraoi 



^^ S: S.^.^^3a '■ '■ ''■ : ill ^,^1^^^- ^}^^- ^if,(1842)p. 242. 



