234 PEEAMELID^. 



2. Ferameles macrura. 



Perameles macrura, Omld, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 41 ; Omy, List Mamm. 



B. M. p. 96 (1843); Sohim, 8yn.,Mamm. i. p. 519 (1844); 



Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 366 (1846) ; Wagn. Schr. Sduff. Supp. 



V. p. 211 (1855) ; Oieb. Sdug. p. 721 (1859) ; Oerrard, Cat. Bones 



Mamm. B. M. p. 132 (1862) ; Oould, Mamm. Austr., Introd. i. 



p. xxiv (1863) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mm. p. 306 (1887) ; Coll. 



Zool. Jahrh. ii. p. 871 (1887). 

 Perameles macrura, var. torosus, Rams. P. Linn. Soo. N. S. W, ii. 



p. 12 (1878). 

 Perameles auiatus, Bams. P. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 651 (1887). 



NoETH-AuSTItALIAN BANDICOOT. 



Almost indistinguishable externally from P. obesula. The tail, 

 however, is rather longer, the feet, as a rule, are larger and heavier, 

 and the general colour lis darker, especially on the head. 



ShuU large and stout, generally more heavily built than that of 

 P. obesula, especially in the male. Nasals, structure of interorbital 

 region, laorymals, anterior palatine foramina, foramina rotunda, and 

 bullse as in P. obesula. Zygomata much more expanded in the 

 male than in the female. Palate more completely ossified than in 

 P. obesula, the vacuities opposite p." absent, those opposite m.^ and m.^ 

 smaller, and the extreme back of the palate without or with scarcely 

 any minute vacuities. Lower jaw much heavier and thicker- than 

 in P. obesula, and the ascending process not nearly so much slanting 

 backwards, the line of the teeth meeting its anterior edge at an 

 angle but little more than a right angle (94^-100°). 



Teeth large and strong. Upper i.° scarcely separated from i.*, 

 nearly as broad and flat as the other incisors, although pointed at 

 its tip. P.' about 2 mOlim. from the canine, and 1 millim. from 

 p.'; p.° rounded in section, but little longer (horizontally) than 

 broad. Molars large, square and heavj', the combined lengths of 

 the three first from 11*5 to 12-5 millim. , their inner halves nearly 

 as long, antero-posteriorly, as their outer, so that the usual V- 

 shaped spaces between them are closed up ; m.'' with a large and 

 conspicuous posterior talon. Lower i.^ about 1 or 2 millim. from 

 the canine, behind which there is a diastema of 2 or 3 millim. ; 

 p.' about 1 millim. from p.^ Molays large and strong, as in the 

 upper jaw. 



Dimensions. 



* (skin). (stuffed). 



Adult. .Adult. 



millim. millim. 



Head and body 410 335 



TaU '.. (c.) 180 



Hindfoot 70 56 



Muzzle to eye 46 36 



Ear 22* 21 



Skull, see p. 249. 



* 20 millim. in a very large head preserved in spirit in the Genoa Museum. 

 In this speeinien the ear, when laid forward, only reaches to within about 10 

 or 12 millim.' of the eye. 



