4. PHABCOLOGAIE. 295 



fig. 5 (skull) (1846); Owen, Todd's Cyclop. Anat. iil. p. 269, 

 fig. 82 (teeth) (1847); Gieb. Odontogr. p. 39, pi. xvii. fig. 4 

 (teeth) (1856) ; Gerv. H. JV. Mamm. ii. p. 283 (1855) ; Schleg. 

 Bierk. p. 137 (1857) ; Gieb. Sdug. p. 726 (1859) ; Gerrard, Cat,. 

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

 Mug. p. 27 (1864) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 431; id. Austr. Vert. 

 p. 15 (1871) ; Schleg. JOierent. p. 161 (1872) ; Gieb. Bronn's Kl. u. 

 Ordn. Yi. Abth. v. pi. xix. fig. 9 (skull) (1874) ; Brehm, Thierl. ii. 

 p. 551, and fig. (animal) (1880) ; Flow. Sf Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. 

 ii. p. 739 (1884) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 303 (1887) ; Thos. 

 Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 604 (1887) ; id. PhU. Tram, clxxviii. 

 p. 461, pi. xxvii. figs. 2 and 4 (teeth) (1887); CoU. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 

 p. 859(1887). 

 Tapoa tafa *, Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 190 (1842). 



BKUSH-TArLED PhASCOLOGALB. 



Size large, form stout and strong. Pur short and coarse, underfur 

 thick and close. General colour uniform finely grizzled pale grey, 

 the head, back, outsides of limbs, and base of tail all of this colour. 

 Face with an indistinct darker stripe down the muzzle. Ears very 

 large, laid forward they entirely cover the eye, thin, nearly naked. 

 Hairs of back black, with a broad subterminal white band. Chin 

 white ; chest, belly, and inner sides of limbs white or pale grey, not 

 sharply defined ; pouch-hairs dull rufous, with white tips. Feet 

 and hands grey, becoming paler on the fingers and toes ; palms and 

 soles (PL XXIII. fig. 4) quite naked, the former with six, the 

 latter with five unusually long primary pads, the haUucal one being 

 undivided, but there is a minute supplementary pad behind the 

 ordinary postero-external pad, making six in aU ; claws long and 

 strong. Tail long and thick, its basal fourth or fifth furred and 

 coloured all round like the back, its next fourth or fifth shorter- 

 haired, paler above, brown below, and its terminal half or three 

 fifths thickly clothed all round with long black hairs, forming a 

 prominent brush. Mammse 10 t. 



SlcuV, stout and strong, markedly flattened above, swollen and 

 broadened across in front of the orbits; muzzle short and conical. 

 l^asals evenly expanded behind. Interorbital region broad and 

 flat, its edges square, more or less converging backwards. Occipital 

 crests very little developed. Anterior palatine foramina broad and 

 open, extending backwards to about the centre of the canines. 

 Posterior palate with a pair of large vacuities reaching from about 

 the middle of m.^ to m.* Bullae very large and swollen, transparent, 

 the mastoid nearly one third the size of the tympanic portion. 



Teeth (PI. XXIV. fig. 4). Upper incisors thick and strong, 

 especially i.'; i.^ with a large pointed crown, flattened antero- 

 externally, in section twice the size of either i.' or i.*, which are 

 about equal. Premolars evenly increasing in size backwards, p.* 

 about twice the size of p.' Lower incisors broadened and flattened 

 antero -posteriorly, their relative sizes in section about expressed by 



* Used as a binomial under the heading of the genus " Tapoa." 

 t Apud Krefft, I. c. 



