432 MR. G. KREFFT ON THE AUSTRALIAN DASYURID^E. [Nov. 22, 



Antechintjs, MacLeay. 



Dentition as in Phascogale. Fur rather harsh and short. Tail 

 clothed throughout with short hair. The feet broad and rohust. 

 Tarsi more or less naked. First pair of incisors equal to, or but 

 slightly larger than the other front teeth ; canines more developed 

 than any of the premolars ; and the articulating condyle of the lower 

 jaw more elevated than in the genus Phascogale. Provided with 

 a pouch, which is sometimes very shallow ; with ten mammae ; and 

 arboreal in their habits. 



1. Antechinus flavipes (Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. 40). 



2. A. leucogaster (ibid. pi. 38). 



3. A. unicolor (ibid. pi. 37). 



4. A. ferruginifrons (ibid. pi. 36). 



These three species are probably all local varieties of the first, A. 

 Jlavipes. I have removed a number of skulls from specimens an- 

 swering to Mr. Gould's description of the above species, but could 

 detect no difference in the shape of the skull or the dentition. Be- 

 sides, A. Jlavipes has a very wide distribution, and is found from Cape 

 Horn to the Tropics on the east coast ; it is also a common animal 

 in the interior of South Australia and New South Wales. 



5. A. swainsonii (ibid. pi. 34). 

 Hab. Tasmania. 



6. A. apicalis (ibid. pi. 39). 

 Hab. West Australia. 



7. A. affinis. 

 Hab. Tasmania. 



8. A. maculatus (ibid. pi. 44). 

 Hab. Queensland. 



9. A. minutissimus (ibid. pi. 45). 



Hab. Queensland. 



Some of these species, as A. affinis and A. maculatus, I have not 

 seen ; but they belong probably to the broad-footed section of this 

 genus. 



Podabrus, Gould. 



Antechini with small, slender feet, five toes to each foot, the small 

 nailless thumb situated still further back than in the genus Ante- 

 chinus proper. Fur very soft and dense, of a woolly texture. Canines 

 small, seldom exceeding the largest premolar in size. Pouch with 

 generally ten, sometimes with only eight mammas. Terrestrial in 

 their habits. 



