508 OLDFIELD THOMAS 
black lines, one running along the top of the muzzle and the 
other two from the sides of the muzzle to the eyes. Intervals 
between lines, sides of face, and tufts at bases of both inner and 
outer margins of ears rufous. Chin, chest, belly, fore-limbs, 
hands, and feet pale yellowish rufous, the bases of the hairs 
grey. Tail brown above, dull yellowish grey below. 
Skull short and strongly built. Nasals scarcely broader behind 
than in front. Interorbital space unusually narrow, and with 
rudimentary postorbital processes. 
Pm + very large, both above and below, twice the size of 
pm- above, and distinctly larger than it below, i. e. —, this 
species being the only one in which pm— exceeds pm = below. 
Molars small, ms‘* 5.3 mm., lateral incisors slender, i= slightly 
larger than i È or i =. 
Hab. Central Queensland. 
I have to thank D." R. Collett of the Christiania Museum for 
the opportunity of examining the specimen of this rare species 
figured by him in the Zoological Society’s Proceedings. It was 
obtained in Central Queensland by D." Carl Lumbholtz. 
8. Ph. apicalis, Gray. 
Ann. Mag. N. H. 1X, p. 518, 1842. 
Size medium. Ears small, opaque. Tail considerably shorter than 
the head and body, tapering, rather short-haired, but the hairs 
along its upper surface forming an indistinct crest. Hallucal 
foot-pad indistinctly divided. 
Whole body uniform pale grizzled grey, back tinged with 
rufous. Upper surface distinctly speckled with white. A white 
ring round the eyes. Belly, limbs and underside of tail pale 
grey, with a tinge of yellow; outer sides of fore-arm rufous. 
Upper side of tail like back, but becoming black distally. 
Skull stout and strong. Nasals very little expanded behind, 
their greatest only about 11/, times their least width. 
Pm. quite minute, above and below, i. e. +. 
