1863.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 451 
Report of the Curator, Zoological Department. 
(Continued from page 90.) 
VII. From the Melbourne Institution. A collection of Mammals 
and birds, the skin of one reptile and that of a fish.* 
The Mammals are— 
Of PracentTania Fam. Murip»,— 
*HAPALOTIS APICALIS, Gray, P. Z. 8.1851, p. 126. (2 specimens). 
*H. Mircuennit; Dipus Mitchell Ogilby, Tr. L. Soc. XVIIL., 
129. (2). 
*Mus—? Length 4 in., with tail about 3 in. ; hind foot 12 in. 
ear-conch small, posteriorly ¢ in. Fur straight, gee long, of he 
ordinary rat-brown above, ashy beneath, and the feet somewhat albes- 
cent ; tail clad with short hairs, biackish above, aibescent below. (2). 
*Mus—? Like a diminutive Hapatorts, with the exception of the 
tail. Length 3% or 33 in., with tail 23 in. ; hind foot ¢ im. ; ear-conch 
ample, + in. long posteriorly. Colour ight brown above, the tips of 
the hairs black upon the back ; below pure white, abruptly separated 
from the hue of the upper parts ; tail dark above, whitish below and 
tolerably well clad ; feet white. (2). 
Of MarsupraLta,— 
*PHASCOGALE CRASSICAUDATA ; Podabrus crassicaudatus, Gould, 
P. Z. 8. 1844, p. 105; Mammals of Australia, pt. I. pl. 5; Water- 
- house, Wamm. I1., 428. (2). 
*PHRAMELES OBESULA; Didelphys obesula, Shaw; Waterhouse, 
Manm. I., 368. (2). 
ae oo Gray ; Waterhouse, Mamm. I., 376. 
*Berroncia Grait; Hypsiprymnus Grav, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1840, 
p- 178; Waterhouse, ‘Manin I., 203. @). 
*HYPSIPRYMNUS RUFESCENS; Letiongia rufescens, Gray, MW. N. H. 
n. 8., 1. (1837), 584: Hypsiprymnus melanotis, Gould, Monogr. pt. 2 : 
Waterhouse, Mamm. I., 196. 
*MacRopus FRmNATUS, Gould, P. Z S. 1840, p. 92; Gould, 
Monogr. pt. I. pl. 18. (2). Also skull. 
* Species new to the Society’s museum are distinguished by having an aste- 
risk prefixed. 
