548 PROF. R. COLLETT ON PH APCOl.OGAI.E VIRGINT.E. [DpC. 7, 



8. On PhascoJogale virginics, a rare Pouched Mouse from 

 Northern Queensland. By Robert Collett^ C.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived December 2, 1886.] 

 (Plale LX.) 



Phascologale VIRGINIA, De Tarragon, 1847. (Plate LX.) 



Phascologale virginice, De Tarr. Revue Zool. 1847, p. 177. 



Diagn. Skull with strong sagittal and occipital crests, and 

 distinct processus postorhitales. Incisors almost equal ; upper 

 canine very long. First premolar very small ; third the largest. 



Ossa palatina with foramina ; pars mastoidea scarcely inflated 

 behind the bulla3. 



Ears large, almost naked ; tail as long as the body and head, 

 scantily clothed with adpressed hairs. 



Hind feet slender, hallux very short ; sole of metatarsus naked in 

 the middle line ; tuberculated callosities at the base of the toes. 



Colour blackish, grizzled with silvery white ; head reddish grey, 

 with a black stripe from nose to between the ears, and trace of 

 another on the side of the snout. Below greyish ; feet pale red, tail 

 reddish grey with black tips\ 



Measurements, taken from the stuffed specimen : — 



millim. 



Length of body (with head) about 125 



Length of tail 1 20 



From tip of snout to ear 32 



Height of ear, exterior margin 20"5 



Height of ear, interior margin 14*5 



Sole of hind foot (with claw) 33 



Fur rather short, not woolly ; each hair bluish grey at the base, 

 the outer third white with black tip, some hairs entirely black. 



Feet slender ; point of hallux not nearly reaching to the base of 

 the toes. 



Skull. The skull is strongly built, with high sagittal and occipital 

 crests, and a distinct processus postorbitalis ; the dentition is, how- 

 ever, comparatively weak. 



millim. 



Length of skull 31-5 



Breadth across arcus zygomaticus 19 



Height 12 



Shortest breadth between orbits 5'5 



Breadth before the commencement of a. zygomaticus. 12 



Length of tooth-series in upper jaw 15 



Length of tooth-series in lower jaw 13 



Dentition :— L | ; C. [ ; P. | ; M. -^ (46). 



^ The colour of the tail and snout is rather indistinct, the hairs being very 

 mucli worn. 



