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touching one another. P.* markedly higher than any of the molars, 

 its extremity bifid, the two points equal. Lower molars four, the 

 three anterior about equal in size, the last much smaller, aU more 

 or less oblong in shape. 



This species has always hitherto been taken for the jyoung of 

 D. nana, to which' it bears considerable external resemblance *. 

 Its cranial and dental characters, however, are very markedly 

 different from those of that species, and would, in any less variable 

 genus than the present, be of generic importance. 



?• 

 a (m spmt). 



Adult. 



millim. 



Head and body 70 



Tail 75 



Lower leg 19'6 



Hind foot 12-0 



Muzzle to eye 8'7 



Ear 16-0 



SkuU, see p. 148. 



Hah. Tasmania. 

 Type in collection. 



I Ad. al. I 5 (and 4 young Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. 



*• ] Skull, f in pouch). [P. & 0.]. 



{Type of species.) 

 6. Imm. sk. Launceston, W. F. Petterd, Esq. 



Tasmania. [C. & E.]. 



2. Dromicia caudata. 



Dromicia caudata, M.-Edw. C. R. Ixxxv. p. 1079 (1877). 

 Lowa-TAiLED Doemousb-Phalanoer. 



Size largest of genus. Fur very long, soft and silky. General 

 colour diill rufous. Face rufous fawn, with two broad black bands 

 passing from nose through eyes, not quite reaching ears. Ears 

 rather long and narrow, evenly oval, naked. Back-hairs slaty grey 

 for five sixths of their length, their tips dull rufous. Chest and 

 belly pale yellowish white, the bases of the hairs slate-coloured. 



* On discovering, since visiting the Paris Museum, that there were two 

 species of Dromicia in Tasmania, I thought it possible Ihat the original type of 

 B. nana, which is of about the same size as B. lepida, would prove to be this 

 smaller one, and not to be the same as Bell's D. gliriformis, the larger one. 

 M. Huet, of the Paris Museum, however, has kindly sent me a drawing of the 

 premolars of Desmarest's specimen, and this shows their shape to be that so 

 characteristic of the larger species. The Paris type must therefore be a young 

 specimen of the common form, with which B. gliriformis is synonymous, 

 while the present smaller species must be regarded as new. 



