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inches. The tail, which is much laterally compressed, is pyriform 

 in section, with the broad end uppermost, and has a distinct 

 tendency to coil inwards for about its terminal half. This feature 

 is very-well shown in the youngest specimen preserved in spirit. 

 The larger male has much resemblance, in general appearance, to 

 a female specimen of L. lejMroides in the S.A. Museum. Both 

 specimens are about of equal size, but L. leporoides lias a more 

 nearly uniformly light-coloured tail and proportionally longer 

 hindfeet. The longer and more slendei; tail of L. hirsutus is con- 

 spicuously dark and the hindfeet are fully an inch shorter. The 

 skulls of both specimens show no marked difFerences. The 

 younger skin of an individual rather more than half-grown 

 (mounted) has the skin injured in such a way that the sex cannot 

 be distinguished. It has the brown zone round the eye pro- 

 longed to the sides of the muzzle. 



Mr. Streich informs us that this animal appears to be numer- 

 ous in the northern parts of the Victoria Desert, where it often 

 falls the prey to the Wedge-tailed eagle. 



Onychogale lunata, Gotild. 



A young male from the Everard Range. 



The white mark behind the base of the forelimb is not nearly 

 so distinct as is shown in Gould's figure. A female collected on 

 the transcontinental Journey of His Excellency the Governor, 

 the Earl of Kintore, has apparently a proportionally longer tail, 

 but it is possible that this is owing to a deficiency of the tip in 

 the former case. 



Pktkogale lateralis, Goidd. 



Male, female and young (taken from the pouch) obtained at, 

 or near, the Barrow Range. 



These specimens are more conspicuously marked than others 

 which were collected by Dr. Stirling in the neighbourhood of 

 Alice Springs in 1891. Th(! dark-brown markings are of a 

 deeper tinge, but the whitish or yellowish markings more faintly 

 shown. Beyond these we are unable to detect any ojiher 

 differences which would justify a specific separation of these 

 specimens from th(5se collected at Alice Springs. It seems to 

 have a wide range in the mountainous or rocky districts of the 

 interior. Those in the British Museum were collected on the 

 N.W. coast and Swan River District, W.A. 



Macropus robustus, GovJd. 



One skull, Victoria Desert. 



Hapalotis MrrciiELLL 



Three innnatui-e specimens. Eraser Range. This species has a 

 wide i-ange in the interior of Australia. 



