1. PEEAGALE. 223 



II. Cranial Charactees. ' 



a. Molars long-crowned, their cusps blunt, 



rounded, and nearly obsolete. Lengtb of 



molars 1-3 12 millim. or more 1. P. lagotis, p. 223. 



b. Molars short-crowned, with numerous sharp- 



pointed cusps. Length of molars i-3 about 



10 millim 2. P. kucura, p. 225. 



1. Feragale lagotis. 



Perameles (Macrotis) lagotis, Reid, P. Z. 8. 1836, p. 129 ; WaUrh. 

 N. IT. Mamm. i. p. 360, pi. xiii. fig. 1 (animal), pi. xx. fig. 1 (skull) 

 (1846) ; Gteb. Saug. p. 720 (1859) ; Schmidt, Zool. Gart. viii. 

 pp. 1, 41, & 181, & plate (animal) (1867). 



Perameles lagotis, Waterh. Cat. Mamm. Mm. Z. S. p. 65 (1838) ; 

 Gulliver, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 60 ; Waterh. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. 

 xi. p. 153, pi. xii. (animal) (1841) ; Owen, Tr. Z. S. ii. pp. 320 & 

 380, pi. Ixxi. fig. 1 (skuU) (1841) ; Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. 

 p. 191 (1842) ; Wagn. Schr. Sang. Supp. iii. p. 61 (1843), v. 

 p. 210 (1865) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. p. 517 j(1844) ; Owen, 

 Odontogr. Atl. pi. xcviii. fig. -5 (teeth) (1845) ; id. TodSs Cyclop.' 

 Anat. iii. p. 260, fig. 96 (skull) (1845) ; JDesm. Diet. Univ. d'H. N. 

 ix. p. 579 (1849); Gieb. Odontogr. p. 40, pi. xviii. figs. 6 & 8 

 (teeth) (1855); Sohleg. Dierh. p. 138 (1857); Owen, Anat. Vert. 

 ii. p. 346, fig. 222 (skull) (1866); Schleg. Dierent. p. 163 (1872). 



Perameles (Peragalea) lagotis. Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 



Peragale lagotis, Gi-ay, List Mamm. B. M. p. 96 (1843) ; Goidd, 



Mamm. Aiistr. i. pi. vii. (animal) (1845) ; Gerv. H. N. Mamm. ii. 



p. 279 (1856) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 133 (1862); 



Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 33 (1864); id. Mamm. Austr. 



text to pi. xi. p. 5 (1871) ; Flow. ^ Gars. Cat. Ost. CoU. Surg. ii. 



p. 736 (1884) ; Lyd. Cat. Foss. Mamm. B. M. p. 257 (1887). 

 Macrotis lagotis, Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 305 (1887). 



Eabbit-Bandicooi. • 



Size large; form light and delicate. Fur very long, soft and 

 silky, nearly wholly composed of underfur, a few longer hairs only 

 mixed with it. General colour fawn-grey. Head very long, 

 muzzle narrow ; naked rhinarium extending back for about three 

 quarters of an inch along the top of the muzzle, pointed behind. 

 Face pale brown, the underfur white, and the longer hairs brown- 

 tipped, the hairs considerably shorter and stifEer than on the body. 

 Cheeks and bases of ears white or pale fawn. Ears very long, 

 nearly naked, their edges finely fringed and the anterior part of 

 their backs thinly clothed with pale brown hairs. Metatragus, 

 so far as can be judged from dried specimens, apparently similar 

 to that of P. leucura. Back hairs long, the underftir slaty 

 grey with rather paler tips, the longer hairs fawn or brown-tipped. 

 Sides of rump with an indistinct darker band running vertically 

 downwards from the back, bordered before and behind by white or 

 pal6 fawn-coloured bands running upwards. Chin, chest, and 



