4. PHAscoioeALB. 279 



p. 36 (1843), V. p. 199 (1855) ; Schmz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 493 



(1844); Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 429 (1846); Oray, Voy. 



Samarang, Vert. p. 32 (1850) ; Schkg. Dierk. p. 137 (1857) ; Gh-ay, 



P. Z. -S. 1858, p. 106; Gieh. Sdug. p. 727(1859); Oerrard, Cat. 



Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 135 (1862) ; Schleg. Bierent. p. 161 (1872); 



Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mm. p. 304 (1887). 

 Phascogale thorbeckiana, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 257 



(1866); id. Dierent. p. 162 (1872); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. 



p. 304 (1887) ; Thos. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 505 (1887) ; id. 



Phil. Trans, clxxviii. p. 461, pi xxvii. fig. 3 (teeth) (1887). 

 Chaetocercus bruijnii, Peters, Arm. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 420 (1875). 

 Dasycercus bruijnii, Peters, SB. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1875, p. 73. 

 Phascogale (Chsetocercus) thorbeckiana, Peto-s ^ Doria, Ann. Mus. 



Genov. xvi. p. 667, pi. v. (animal), pi. vi. figs. 1-4 (skull) (1881). 



Chestititt-neckbd Phascolggaie. 



Size large, general build comparatively stout. Fur coarse and 

 harsh, underfur' thin and sparse. General colour richly variegated 

 chestnut, black and yeUow ; back black-striped. Head dark yel- 

 lowish rufous, a central black stripe commencing on the muzzle and 

 passing backwards along the neck and back to the rump. Ears 

 small, when laid forward barely reaching to the centre of the eye, 

 thick and fleshy, their backs thinly covered with black hairs. 

 Crown, all the region behind the ears, top and sides of neck (except 

 along the median black stripe) rich chestnut-red. Back coarsely 

 grizzled black and yellow, the hairs black with a yellow or orange 

 subterminal band, becoming more rufous on the rump ; on the fore- 

 back there are, commencing just above the shoulders, two more 

 black lines, less prominent than the central one, and making three 

 in all, the space between the lateral and central lines anteriorly 

 white or pale yellow, sometimes very prominent and sometimes in- 

 distinct, according as the hairs are wholly, or only ringed with, 

 yellow. Sides of body , grizzled black and yellow, becoming gra- 

 dually paler and duller below. Chin and chest pale rufous ; belly 

 dull yellowish grey ; hairs in pouch dark brown. Forearms rich 

 rufous like the neck ; hands brown ; palms with six pads, the 

 poUical distinctly separated into two. Hind legs like fore, but 

 darker red; feet brown or yellowish brown; soles whoUy naked, 

 with five pads, the hallucal not, or only very indistinctly, divided 

 in the centre. Tail evenly tapering, long-haired above and 

 on the sides, quite short-haired below, the long hairs above, and 

 the rump, deep maroon-red; upperside of tip black; underside 

 rufous or brownish, but the hairs not hiding the dark-coloured 

 scales. Mammae 6. 



ShuM strongly buUt ; muzzle broad and heavy. Nasals long, 

 widely and abruptly expanded behind. Interorbital space broad 

 and smooth, its edges square, thickened, and in old specimens 

 forming rudimentary postorbital processes. Anterior palatine fora- 

 mina extending backwards to the level of the front of the canines. 

 Posterior palate comparatively perfect ; a pair of rather small vacui- 

 ties opposite the junction of m.'' and m.^ Bullse swollen, trans- 



