288 DASYTTBID^. 



front and outside of the hips. Hands and feet variahle — grey, jel- 

 lowish, or brown ; palms and soles smooth, naked, each generally 

 with only five pads, the pollical and hallucal usually continuous, but 

 the latter one sometimes divided, making a total of six pads. Claws, 

 especially the anterior, very long and strong, extending beyond the 

 tips of the fingers by from 3 to 4 miUim., horn-coloured. Tail 

 short, uniformly closely hairy, the hairs just long enough to hide 

 the scales ; brown above, rather paler beneath. 



SIcull light and slender, with a long narrow muzzle. Nasals, 

 interorbital and occipital regions, and bullse as in Ph. swainsoni. 

 Palate more complete than in that species, the anterior foramina 

 narrow, and only extending backwards to the level of the back of 

 the canines, and the posterior vacuities also slightly smaller. Lower 

 jaw with the coronoid process slenderer than in Ph. swainsoni, the 

 greatest breadth of the masseteric fossa not exceeding 4'1 or 4-2 

 miUim. 



Teeth very similar to those of Ph. swainsoni. Upper incisors 

 short, flattened laterally, i.i not twice the length of, and with its 

 posterior edge touching, i^. Three lateral iucisors subequal. Pre- 

 molars evenly increasing backwards. Lower incisors nearly equal 

 in size ; canine short, its posterior basal ledge well developed, but 

 not so broad as in Ph. swainsoni. Premolars more nearly equal 

 than usual, p.'* slightly smaller than p.^ and larger than p.i, but the 

 differences not great'; all with well-developed posterior basal heels. 

 M.' with a distinct antero-intemal secondary -cusp. 



MUk-p.^ well developed, triangular, long-persistent. 



d (in al.) 

 Adult, 

 millim. 



Head and body 135 



TaU 85 



Hind foot 19 ' 



Ear 10 



Skull, see p. 299. 



Hab. Tasmania and the adjoiaing islands. 

 Type in the Paris Museum. 



I Ad. ak. I J, 1 ,KQ Hummock Island, F. M. Rayner, Esq. 



''• \ Skull, f ^' ^/^"- Bass's Straits [P. & 0.]. 



(Voy. 'Herald'). 

 , I Ad. sk. I Tasman's Peninsula, Gould OoU. 



I Skull. I Tasmania. (Type of Ph. affinis, Gray.) 



c. Ad. sk. Scottsdale, Tas- W. F. Petterd, Esq. 



mania. [E.l. 



, „ i 3 ad. & 1 imm. al. I , Tasmania. Eonald Gunn, Esq. 



'^9- ] Skull of d f o- [P. &G.]. 



h. Skeleton (mounted"). Tasmania. Eonald Gunn, Esq. 



[P. & 0.]. 



