PHASCOLOaAIE. 



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id. Bierent. p. 162 (1872) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 304 

 (1887) ; Thos. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 505 ^887). 

 Pliascogale (Olisetocercus) pilicauda, Peters Sf Doria, Ann. Mus. 

 Gmov. xvi. p. 668 (1881). 



Ked-tailed Phabcoiogaie. 



Size large. Fur coarse and harsh ; underfur thin, soft. Greneral 

 colour variegated rufous, black and chestnut ; back black-striped. 

 Head rufous yellow, the mesial dark stripe not or scarcely visible 

 nntU the OQpiput. Ears short, laid forward only just reaching the 

 eye, thick and fleshy, their backs very thinly clothed with brown 

 hairs. Back and sides of neck and anterior back bright grizzled 

 orange, the hairs dark with a subterminal yellow band ; a patch on 

 each side behind ears rich rufous. Back with three black stripes, 

 the lateral ones commencing above the shoulders ; general colour of 

 back coarsely grizzled black and yellow, 'becoming more rufous on 

 rump ; intervals between stripes anteriorly not prominently lighter 

 than rest of back. Chin, chest, and belly pale rufous or yellowish, 

 the bases of the hairs grey ; hairs of pouch brown. Fore limbs 

 and hands rufous or yellow, the fingers brown ; palms with six pads. 

 Rump, and hind Umbs outside, rich grizzled chestnut-rufous in main- 

 land, dull grizzled yellow in Aru-Island specimens ; hind feet mixed 

 red and brown ; soles (PI. XXIII. fig. 3) naked, with six pads, the 

 haUucal one broadly divided into two. Tail long, tapering, very 

 long-haired above and at the sides for its whole length ; the hairs 

 14 or 15 miUim. in length, rich chestnut mixed with black ; under- 

 side covered with shorter, paler, adpressed hairs, hiding the scales. 

 Mammae 6. 



SJcuU smaller and lighter than that of Ph. thorhecTciana. Muzzle 

 narrow, conical. Nasals long, not unusually expanded behind. 

 Interorbital space broad and flat, its edges not forming rudimentary 

 postorbital processes. Anterior palatal foramina reaching to about 

 the centre of the canines. Bullae transparent, rather lower and less 

 swollen than in Ph. thorheckiana. 



Teeth as in Ph. thorheckiana, except that p." above is decidedly 

 larger than p.' and nearly as large as p.', that the lower p.' and p.' 

 are rather smaller and touch each other, and that p.* below is well 

 developed, two-rooted, and nearly or quite half the size of p.' 

 Milk-p.* not known, probably minute and early deciduous. 



TaU 



Hind foot 



Ear 



Skull, see p. 299. 



