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Size medium ; iorm light and agile. Ehinarium (PI. XI. fig. 2) 

 broad to the lip, the latter but little developed, not hiding the 

 front teeth. Pur of medium length, thick and soft, its direction 

 on the nape variable, sometimes as in Dorcopsis. TJnderfur long, 

 slaty grey. General colour grizzled grey, with rufous neck. Whole 

 of head uniform finely grizzled grey, gradually passing on the occiput 

 into the brilliant rufoua of the neck and forequarters. No trace of 

 a dark nuchal streak. Very rarely the red extends on to the cheeks 

 and round the base of the ear, but in most specimens these parts 

 are grey. Ears long, their backs grey, edged anteriorly with brown 

 or black. The rufous on the forequarters passing gradually into 

 deep grizzled grey on the lower back, the whole sometimes tinged 

 with rufous. A faint trace of a white hip-stripe sometimes present. 

 Chin, chest, and beUy white, that on the front of the neck often 

 sharply defined from the rufous by a ridge of opposed hairs. Arms 

 and legs grey or rufous ; hands and feet pale brown. Tail with 

 its basal fourth covered with long soft grey hairs like those on the 

 back ; the remainder brown above, white below. 



Shull (PI. VIII. fig. 3) large and long, lightly built. Facial 

 index about 230. Muzzle long, broad posteriorly, strongly tapering 

 forwards. Premaxillae oblique ; incisors projecting far beyond sub- 

 nasal prominence ; naso-premaxUlary about equal to naso-maxillary 

 suture. Nasals long, comparatively but slightly expanded behind, 

 their least a little more than half their greatest breadth, the latter 

 situated at the maxillo-frontal suture ; naso-frontal suture much 

 bowed backwards in the ceiitre, and slightly forwards at the sides. 

 Interorbital region short, its edges thickened and forming distinct 

 overhanging postorbital prominences-; intertemporal constriction 

 well-marked. Palatal foramina short, not so long as m.^ 



Teeth. I." (PI. IX. fig. 4) very large, long and cutting, the 

 notch quite at the back, internal lamina scarcely visible externally 

 behind the outer. P.* (PI. X. fig. 9) rather small, shorter than i.', 

 oval, the internal ledge well developed anteriorly. 



Dimensions. 



c (stuffed). / (stuffed), 



millim. luillim. 



Head and body 620 640 



Tail 380 



Hind foot 131 118 



Ear 57 51 



Skull, see p. 63. 



Hah. S. Queensland *, New South Wales, and Victoria. 

 Types in the Paris Museum. 



Apud Krefft. 



