1897.] fROM SrOETH ATJSTRAMA. 335 



DESCRIPTIOIf, 



Size medium, form slender. 



Fur close (in one specimen composed mostly of under- fur). 

 Colour dark greyish brown above, each hair slaty blue for three- 

 fourths of its length, the tip whitish. 



Lower surface a little lighter ; hands and feet greyish white. 

 Front and cheeks orange-rufous, snout more greyish ; a black 

 mesial stripe from nose to between the ears. 



Ears large ; laid forwards they reach to the anterior margin of 

 the eye. 



Tail greyish white, a little longer than head and body, slightly 

 incrassated, its hair covering thin ; on the tip the hairs are (in 

 some specimens) a little longer and darker coloured. 

 Vibrissce greyish. 



Palms granulated, with six small pads, smooth : four anterior, 

 very small (narrower than the breadth of the claws), two posterior ; 

 the postero-external very small, the exterior somewhat larger, about 

 the same size as those on the bases of the claw-joints. Besides 

 these pads there is a small callosity at the wrist. 



Soles hairy posteriorly, naked anteriorly (as in S. leueopus). 

 Sole-pads 4, very small, not fimbriated ; that on tlie base of the 

 hallux not much larger than the granulations \ 



Sliill. Size of skull in an adult male : length 28 mm., breadth 

 16-5 mm., length of nasals 10-5 mm., length of bony palate 14 mm. 

 Interorbital space flat or a little concave, with trace of a post- 

 orbital process. 



Palatal foramina as in /S^. leueopus. 

 Upper canine long, considerably longer than p*. 

 Premolars not touching ; upper p^ decidedly larger than p^. 

 Upper p* double as large as p^ (larger than any of the molars). 

 Lower p* of the same size as p^. 



Locality. 



Daly Eiver, North Australia, July and Oct. 1894 (four speci- 

 mens '^). These four specimens were brought in by the natives, 

 who dug them out in the gardens. 



Tam. BcHiDTfiD^. 



31. Echidna actjleata (Shaw), 1792. 



Echidna aculeata, var. typica, Thos. Cat. Mars. Monotr. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 379 (1888) ; Ogilby, Cat. Austral. Mamm. p. 3 (1892). 



N. Australia : Daly Eiver, Aug. lst-2nd, 1894 (two specimens). 

 Mary Eiver, May 5th, 1895 (one specimen). 



Skin. Two males, one female ; all belong to the same form as 



^ There is no trace of a second posterior sole-pad, as figured by Thomas in 

 S. leueopus (Cat. Mars. Monotr. Brit. Mus. pi. 23. fig. 6). 

 - Two as skins, two preserved in spirit. 



