4. PHABCOLOeAIB. 285 



of the recurrence of the lost p.% described hy the present author*, 

 took place, a recurrence that settled the important point as to which 

 of the original four premolars had been lost in this family, and 

 therefore presumably in the other Polyprotodonts. Without the 

 indications furnished by this specimen the complete dental for- 

 mulsB given in the present work could not' have been made out, 

 and would have had to be drawn up merely on the old system of 

 notation. 



^ I Ad. al. I o g «5 Hatam, Mt. Arfak (O. Genoa Museum [E.]. 



I Skull. I *' ' ■ Beccari). (Co-iype of species.) 



j_ I Ad. sk. I ^_ Mt. Arfak. A. A. Bruijn [C.]. 



7. Fhascologale swainsoni. 



Phascogale swainsoni, Waterh. Mag, N. S. (2) iv. p. 299 (1840) ; 



Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 36 (1843), v. p. 199 (1855) ; Sohinz, 



Syn. Mamm. i. p. 493 (1844) ; Qieb. Sauff. p. 727 (1859) ; Jent. 



Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 303 (1887). 

 Phascogale (Antechinus) swainsoni, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 411 



(1846) ; Gunn, P. May. Soc. Tasm. ii. p. 82 (1852). 

 AnteoLinus swainsoni, Oovld, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xxxiv. (animal) 



(1854) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 136 (1862) ; Krefft, 



Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 30 (1864) ; id. Notes Faun. Tasm. 



p. 4 (1864) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 432 ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 15 (1871) ; 



Gray, Toy. Ereb. Terr., Mamm. p. 12 c, pi. xxv. fig. 1 (animal) 



(1875) ; Bqhs. J. Anat. Phys. xvii. p. 153 (1882); Higg. 8f Pett. 



P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1883, p. 196. 

 AntecHnus nige'r, Sigg. ^ Pett. P. Boy. Soc. Tasm. 1882, p. 172. 

 Antechinus moorei, JSigg. ^ Pett. op. cit. 1883, p. 182, and var. 



assimilis, t. c. p. 185. 



Swainson's Pouoheb Mouse. 



Size medium. Fur very long, soft and thick ; underfur abundant, 

 forming the greater part of the fur, slaty blue for five sixths of its 

 length, its extreme tip brown or yellow. General colour deep rufous 

 or umber-brown. Muzzle long. Head dark grizzled grey-brown, 

 uniform with the back. Ears short but broad, scarcely projecting 

 beyond the fur, laid forward they reach to about the centre of the 

 eye, closely covered with short dark brown hairs, the hair round 

 their bases often rufous. Neck. and back uniform dark finely grizzled 

 brown, the forequarters sometimes greyer than the rump, but the 

 whole generally quite uniform ; rump and front of hips brown, not 

 yellow or rufous. Chin, chest, and beUy duU brownish grey, the 

 bases of the hairs slate, their tips white or pale grey, not yellow ; 

 hairs of pouch dark red. Limbs to wrists and ankles like back ; 

 hands and feet uniform dark brown ; palms and soles each with 

 five pads, the hallucal not , or only indistinctly divided ; fore claws 

 very long and strong, extending for from three to four millim. be- 

 yond the tips of the fingers. Tail about as long as the body without 



* Phil. Trans. I. c. 



