12. pSascolaecius. 



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Fur thick, close and woolly. General colour dark grey. Ehina- 

 rium extending upwards along the top of the muzzle halfway to the 

 eye ; this part apparently naked, but, especially in youth, thinly 

 clothed with minute hairs. Eest of head thickly hairy. Face 

 uniform in colour with the back, dark grey. Ears rounded, laid 

 forward (in a half-grown spirit-specimen) they reach just to the 

 posterior canthus of the eye ; the thick hair on their backs black, 

 tipped with dirty white, and that on their edges and internal 

 surface white, with or without grey bases. Back and outsides of 

 limbs uniform dark grey, turning on the rump to dirty yellowish 

 white, the line of demarcation sometimes irregularly spotted. 

 Cheeks and sides of chin grey ; centre of chin, whole of chest, and 

 inner sides of fore limbs pure white or yellowish white; centre line of 

 beUy white, its sides greyish white ; scrotum and region over pouch 

 whitish, outside of which the groin and the inner sides of the hind legs 

 are deep chestnut-rufous to the ankles. Anal region and the posterior 

 line of the hind legs white. Hands and feet white. 



Shall and teeth as described above. 



Dimensions. 



c?. ?• 



i (skin). k (stuffed). 



Adult. Adult. 



miUim. millim. 



Head and body 810 750 



Lower leg (c.) 158 (c.) 136 



Hind foot 96 98 



Ear 62 58 



Skull, see next page. 



Hab. Eastern Australia from Queensland to Victoria. 

 Type not in existence. 



a. Ad. skeleton, c? Brisbane. Purchased, 

 (mounted). 



b. Foetus in al., 5 • Queensland. Purchased. 



c. Yg. al., $ . Port Stephens, N. S. W. Dr. G. Bennett [P. & C.l. 



d. Yg. skeleton. New South Wales. Dr. G. Bennett [P. & 0.1. 



e. Foetus in al., 5 . New South Wales. J.Brenchley,Esq.[P.&C.J. 

 /. Yg. sk. New South Wales. Zoological Society. 



J Ad. sk. ) o Geelong, Victoria. E. Towle, Esq. [P. & 0.]. 

 ff- 1 Skull. I ¥• 



, I Ad. St. I rv Purchased. 

 ^- j Skull. \ ?• 



i. Ad. sk., (S. .Purchased. 



j. Yg. sk. Linnean Society. 



k, 1. Yg. sks. Purchased. 



m. Yg. skeleton. Purchased. 



n. Skull. Lidth de Jeude Coll. 



p2 



