270 DASttTElDJil. 



General colour yeUowish brown, white-spotted. Face grizzled 

 yellowish grey. Ears large and leafy, very thinly covered with fine 

 yellow hairs ; metatragus large, not so thick and fleshy as in 

 D. geoffroyi. Back brown, the longer hairs with a subterminal 

 band of duU yeUow and a long rufous-brown tip. Sides of neck and 

 body paler, either grey or yellow,, the darker tips to the hairs here 

 disappearing. Body-spots generally distributed, the larger ones 

 about 10 millim in diameter. Chin, chest, and beUy pale grey or 

 yellow, the bases of the hairs generally slate, but sometimes white. 

 Limbs coloured outside like back, inside like belly. Feet thickly 

 covered with short coarse yellow hairs ; hallux present ; soles smooth, 

 naked, with three anterior, one long postero-external, and two postero- 

 internal pads, all distinctly defined and transversely striated ; the 

 last two pads corresponding to the long and often double hallucal 

 pad of PJidscohgale. Tail long, much shorter-haired than in the 

 other species, its base coloured like the body, the remainder black. 

 Palate with seven continuous evenly curved ridges, between which, in 

 the middle Une, there are minute supplementary ones. Mammse 8. 



Sicull similar to, although much smaller than, that of D. viverrinus, 

 but, as is usual with smaller species, the crests and ridges on the 

 skull are much less developed, the occipital crest quite low even in 

 aged specimens. Nasals long, evenly expanded backwards. Inter- 

 orbital space broad and flat, its edges rounded ; intertemporal 

 constriction not strongly marked. Two large posterior palatal 

 vacuities opposite the second and third molars. Bullae much in- 

 flated, transparent. 



Teeth as usual. Upper m.* with a projecting posterior angle, and 

 therefore rather broader antero-postenorly than in the other species. 



6. 2. 



b (stuffed). a (ekin). 



Nearly adult. Adult, 



millim. miUim. 



Head and body 270 300 



TaU 210 215 



Hind foot 44 42 



Ear 20 21 



Skull, see p. 272. 



Hah. North Australia, within the tropics. 



Type in collection. 



This species shows a certain approach to Phascologale in its small 

 size, slender build, and in the structure of its hind feet ; but its skull, 

 dentition, and coloration are all distinctly those of the present genus. 



1 Ad. sk. I □ Port Essington, Northern Gould Coll. 

 "■ iSkuU. ( +■ Territory. (Tyjoe of species.) 



, 1 Nv. ad. St. I , Port Essington. Gould Coll. 



*• i Skull. \^- 



