9. BETIOIfOlA. 107 



Hypsiprymniis euniculus, Ogilb. P. Z. S. 1838, p. 63 ; Waterh. Cat. 



Mamm. Mus. Zool. »Soe.p. 65 (1838) ; id. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. 



xi. p. 186 (1841) ; Wagn. Schr. Saug. Swpp. iii. p. 101 (1843), t. 



p. 291 (1855) ; ScUn%, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 548 (1844) ; CHeb. Odort- 



togr. p. 43, pi xix. fig. 13 (teeth) (1855) ; id. Saug. p. 687 (1859) ; 



id. Sronn's Ml. u. Ordn. yi. Abth. v. pi. xlvii. fii. 24 (teeth) 



(1876). 

 Bettongia euniculus, Gould, Mon. Macrop. pi. xxix. (animal) (1842) ; 



id. Mamm. Austr. ii. pi. Ixiii. (animal) (1854) ; Oerrard, Cat. 



Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 128 (1862) ; Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. 



Mus. p. 47 (1864) ; id. Notes Faun. Tasm. p. 4 (1868) ; id. Mamm. 

 : Austr. text to pi. xi. p. 5 (1871) ; Sigg. ^ Pett. P. R. Sac. Tasm. 



■ 1883, p. 196 ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 325 (1887). 

 Hypsiprymnus (Bettongia) euniculus, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i, 



p. 200 (1846) ; Gum, P. R. Soo. Tasm. ii. p. 86 (1852). 



Tasmanian Jeeboa-Kanoaeoo. 



Size largest of the genus ; form comparatively clumsy. Fur 

 soft, and close and straight ; underfur thick and woolly. General 

 colour of head and body grizzled grey, the longer hairs dark, with a 

 white subterminal band; the underfur dark slate-colour at base, 

 pale yellowish grey at tip, the latter colour showing through and 

 giving a general greyish tinge to the whole. Ears hairy behind, 

 coloured like the head. Chin, chest, and belly white ; no trace of 

 a whitish hip-mark. Arms and legs, hands and feet white, the 

 hairs on the latter long and hispid, nearly or quite hiding the claws. 

 Fore claws very long and strong. Tail above coloured like the 

 body, the hairs along the upper surface, although longer than else- 

 where, not forming a distinct crest, and only occasionally becoming 

 dark brown or black towards the end ; underside of tail dirty white ; 

 tail-tip sometimes white all round. 



Skull stout, heavily built, and on the whole more rounded and less 

 angular than in the other species. Nasals (PI. XIV. fig. 1) with their 

 least slightly more than half their greatest width, the latter going 

 from 2| to 2| times in their length ; their sides concave in front 

 and convex behind, their posterior edges bowed backwards, and their 

 postero-external angles rounded. Interorbital space broad and 

 smooth, its edges rounded, not sharply angular. Palatal vacuities 

 extending forwards to about the middle of m.^ Bullae (PI . XIV. 

 fig. 2) low and flattened, their most projecting part only about 

 8 millim. below the level of the condyloid surface of the glenoid 

 fossa. 



Teeth. Upper p.* (PI. XIII. fig. 8) long and narrow, about 

 8 mUlim. in length, its postero-internal talon minute ; its outer 

 surface with seven or eight grooves. Deciduous p.' rather longer 

 than m.', with five or six grooves. M.* nearly as large as m.', 

 oblong. Lower p.* about 7 or 8 millim. long, with seven or eight 

 internal grooves ; p.' as in the upper jaw. 



