Mamimds from yortli Queensland. 175 



foramina and vacuities about as in that species. Bullae of 

 average size. Proportions of teeth as in Jlavipes. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 143 mm.; tail 122; liind foot 23; ear 19. 



Skull: condylo-basal length 35; basal lengtli 32*8; 

 zygomatic breadth 18-6; nasal^, length 13, median breadth 

 2*5, posterior breadth 5; intertemporal breadth 8; mastoid 

 breadth 1 1'7 ; anterior palatal foramina 3*4 ; bulla, measured 

 parallel with the meatal opening, 3*4 ; front of canine to 

 back of last molar 13"3 ; combined length of ms}~^ 6*8. 



Hab. as above. 



Type, Adult male. B.M. no. 22.12.18.46. Original 

 number 126. Collected 26th May, 1922. 



This fine species, the largest member of the group which 

 used to be known as '' Antechinus '' is readily distinguished 

 by its size, grey or coppery colour, and long slender muzzle. 



1 have named the species, the first-fruits of the Exploration 

 Trust, in honour and affectionate remembrance of the late 

 Mr. F. DuCane Godman, Trustee and life-long benefactor 

 of our National Museum, in whose memory the God man 

 Collecting Fund has been founded by his widow for the 

 continued benefit of the Museum. 



It is remarkable how like in colour and general appearance 

 this species is to the local race of Ph. flavipes, which occuis 

 together with it and which I have now to describe. 



9. Phascogale flavipes adusta, subsp. n. 



c^. 96, 100, 127, 149; ? . 59,125, 131, 143 ; c? ? in 

 spirit. Dinner Creek, Ravenshoe. 2900'. 



^* Caught in dense scrub. ''^ 



On laying out all the available specimens referable to the 

 (formerly) common Phascoyale flavipes, 1 find that there 

 appear to be five recognizable races of it. These are 

 the light-bellied Ph. f. leucogastra of Western Australia, a 

 strongly red-bellied race in S. Australia {rujogaslra), the tiue 

 flavipes of Kew South "Wales and Victoria, a reddish-broMU 

 form believed to inhabit the coastal districts of iSorthern 

 New South Wales and S. Queensland (iinicolor, Gould), ami 

 the present new subspecies from North Queensland. The 

 last may be described as follows : — 



Size about as in flavipes. Fur close and fine, hairs of 

 back about 6 mm. in length. General colour above '^ olive- 

 brown,^' slightly ^varmer posteriorly. Under surface washed 

 with cinnamon. Head concolorous with fore-back, without 

 rufous patches or median biackish line. Hands and feet 



