4. DKOMICIA. 145 



■woolly in texture. General colour uniform dull fawn. EHinarium 

 naked, finely granulated, sharply defined. Face greyish ; darker 

 mark round and in front of eye indistinct and little defined. Ears 

 large, laid forward (in spirit-specimens) they reach just about to the 

 tip of. the muzzle, narrower than in D, lepida ; their outline evenly 

 oval. Palate-ridges eight, the outer corner of the second projecting 

 between the canine and p.' in such a way as to simulate very 

 closely an additional anterior premolar. Fur of back slaty grey for 

 three fourths of its length, dull fawn terminally. Chin duU white ; 

 hairs of chest and belly slate, tipped with dirty white, those along 

 the centre line sometimes wholly white ; line of demarcation along 

 sides very indistinctly marked. Mammae 4. Fore and hind limbs 

 grey ; hands brown, feet whitish. Palms and soles (PL XV. 

 figs. 5, 6, and 7) naked, with large prominent pads, five on each. 

 Tail slightly longer than the head and body, its basal inch furry like 

 the body, and generally much inqrassated ; terminal portion as usual. 



Skull (PL XVI. fig. 6) broad and rounded. Interorbital space 

 flat, its edges square and slightly beaded. Posterior root of zygoma 

 markedly inflated. Anterior palatine foramina reaching backwards 

 to halfway between the canine and p.' Posterior palate imperfect 

 from the level of the front of m.' nearly to its hinder edge. Bullaa 

 very large and prominent, much inflated. 



Teeth (PL XVI. fig. 7). Upper i.' and canine very long, about 

 equal. P.' and p.^ minute, single-rooted, cylindrical, placed close 

 together * near the base of p.* ; p.* very large and strong, with a 

 long pointed main cusp corresponding to the bifid cusp of D. lepida, 

 and a prominent secondary posterior one, almost or quite as high as 

 the tips of the molars. Molars broad and rounded, three in number. 

 Lower i.' unusually long in proportion. Small intermediate teeth 

 three in number, apparently corresponding to i.^, p.^, and p.''', touch- 

 ing one another, no doubt functional to a certain extent ; p.* large, 

 simple, and pointed. Molars as in the upper jaw, but more oblong 

 in shape. 



Dimensions. 



. d. 2. 



d (in spirit). / (in spirit). 



Adult. Adult, 



millim. millim. 



Head and body 100 97 



Tail 104 111 



Lower leg 26 27 



Hind foot 14-7 16 



Muzzle to eye 11 11 "3 



Ear J7-4 17 



SkuU, see p. 148. 



* Their position in fact such that without the a<nalogy of the other species one 

 would be more inclined to call them p.^ and p.^, and therefore, on the whole, 

 rather telling against the homologies here used. Moreover, in specimen g there 

 are on the left side three minute premolars, of which, although the exact 

 correspondence is not easy to determine with certainty, the additional one 

 seems to be the anterior, in which case we should have to reckon in Dromieia 

 the missing premolar as p.^ 



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