48 MAOEOPOBID^. 



Dimensions. 



<?. 



a (skin). 



millim. 



Head and body (c) 700 



Tail 380 



Hind foot 129 



Ear 50 



Skull, see p. 63. 



Bab. N.E. Queensland. 

 Type in collection. 



J Ad. sk. I , Point Cooper, N. of Rocking- J. .MacGiUivray, 



"■ I Skull, i °- ham Bay, Queensland ( Foy. Esq. [P.]. (Type 



' Rattksnake '). of species.) 



16. Macropus wilcoxi. 



Halmaturus wilcoxi, McCoy, Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) xviii. p. 322 

 (1866); Krefft, Austr. Vert. p. 10 (1871); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. 

 Mus. p. 320 (1887). 



Halmaturus temporalis, De Vis, P. Boy. Soc. Queensl. i. p. Ill 

 (1884), 

 Ked-lbgged "Wallaby. 



Like M. stigmatieus in all essentials, but the far longer and 

 softer, the colours everywhere less brilliant, and the contrasts not 

 so strong. The face is grey, but the cheeks, an ill-defined patch 

 above each eye, and the region round the base of the ear are deep 

 rust-colour ; the base of the outside of the ear is also rusty. Flanks 

 grey, scarcely tinged with rufous, not forming rusty longitudinal 

 bands. Hip-stripe almost or wholly obsolete, just visible in some 

 specimens. White of belly tinged with grey. Arms, hands, and 

 feet greyish or pale rufous, browner distally. Tail grey above, 

 white below. Female smaller and more lighty built than male. 



SJcull (PI. VIII. fig. 2) much as in M. stic/maticus ; facial index 

 210-225. PremaxillsB short and uprightly set, the naso-pre- 

 maxillary suture much shorter than in M. stigmaticus, only just 

 about equal to the naso-maxillary. Subnasal projection just 

 surpassed anteriorly by the front edge of i.^ Nasals rather short, 

 broad and expanded behind, contracting suddenly about their centre, 

 their least half or less than half their greatest width, the latter 

 situated some way in front of the maxillo-frontal suture ; their 

 posterior edge sinuous, strongly bowed backwards in the centre and 

 forwards laterally (see Plate). Interorbital region shorter, its edges 

 rather more markedly converging backwards than in M. stigmaticus, 

 and with rounded convexities corresponding to postorbital processes. 

 Palatal foramina short and rounded, about the length of m.' 



Teeth as in M. stigmaticus, but the incisors and molars slightly 

 larger. P.* (PI. X. fig. 8) rather more evenly oval. 



