1. TAESIPES. 133 



Dentition (apparently):-!. ^-4^, C. i, P. °^^l^^ M. (at most) 



Upper canines and lower incisors comparatively weU developed ; 

 all the others, upper and lower, minute and rudimentary. 

 Range. Western Australia. 



1. Tarsipes rostratus. 



Tarsipes rostratus, Gerv. ^ Verr. P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 1 ; ud. Mag. Zool. 

 1842, pis. ixxv.-xxxvii. (animal, skuU, &o.); iid. Proc. Verb. 

 Soe. PUlom. 1842, p. 19 ; Less. N. Tall. R. A. Mamm., p. 187 



(1842) ; ScMnz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 514 (1844) ; Gould, Mamm. 

 Austr. i. pi. V. (animal) (1845) ; Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 346, 

 pi. xi. %. 1 (animal), pi. xix. fig. 6 (skull) (1846) ; Wagn. Schr. 

 Sdug. Supp. V. p. 265 (1865); Gerv. H. N. Mamm. ii. p. 278, 

 Tfigs. (animal and skull) (1855) ; Gieb. Saug. p. 705 (1859) ; Krefft, 

 Mamm. Austr. text to pi. vii. p. 3 (1871) ; Schleg. Bierent. p. 168 

 (1872) ; Flow. Enoycl Brit. (9) xv. p. 382, fig. 31 (animal) (1883) : 

 Flow. Sf Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 706 (1884) ; Jent. Cat. 

 Ost. Leyd. Mm. p. 317 (1887). 



Tarsipes spenserse, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) ix. p. 40 (1842) ; id. 

 op. cit. xi. p. 76 (habits) (1843); id. List Mamm. B. M. p. 87 



(1843) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 121 (1862). 

 Taesipes. 



Fur short, coarse, and hispid. General colour grey, striped 

 dorsally with black or brown. Ehinarium naked, finely granular, 

 its limits sharply defined. Whiskers fine, but unusually long and 

 numerous. Face finely grizded greyish brown, a rather darker line 

 running down its centre, and with an indistinct paler area round 

 each eye. Ears of medium size ; laid forward, in spirit-specimens, 

 they barely reach to the posterior canthus of the eye; evenly 

 rounded, a prominent fold on the inner side of the bases of their 

 outer margins; metatragus well developed. Palate-ridges 8, the 

 anterior four bowed forwards in the centre, the posterior backwards • 

 a peculiar circular space in the centre opposite the molars caused by 

 this arrangement. Back pale grizzled grey, with one distinct 

 blackish line running from the crown to the base of the tail and 

 two others, less distinct and more rufous in colour, running back- 

 wards from the shouldfers to the hips. Flanks with a pale rufous 

 tinge. Chin, chest, and belly yellowish white, the bases of the 

 hairs sometimes grey. Pouch wqll developed. Mammae 4. Arms 

 and legs grey, hands and feet white. Palms and soles granulated, 

 each with five distinct pads. , On the fore feet all the claws are 

 quite fla,t and rudimentary, not perceptible to the touch and far 

 surpassed by the pads, which are, however, not markedly broad- 

 ened. Of the fingers the third is the longest, and then follow, in 

 the order named, the fourth, second, fifth, and first, the two latter 

 being considerably shorter than the other three. Of the hind toes 

 the fourth and fifth are disproportionally long, and are both, like 

 the hallux, practically clawless; fifth nearly to the end of the 

 second phalanx of the fourth ; syndactylous second and third toes 



