4, PHASCOLOaALB. 297 



(1871) ; SchUg. Diermt. p. 161 (1872) ; Gray, Voy. Ereb. Terr., 

 Mamm. p. 12 c, pi. xxvi, fig. 3 (animal) (1875) ; Cunningham, 

 J. Anat. Pkys. xii. p. 427 (1878) ; id. Rep. Voy. ChaUenger, Zool. 

 V. pt. 2, pp. 1-192 (anat.) (1882) ; Flow. ^ Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. 

 Surg. p. 740 (1884) ; Thos. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 504 (1887). 



Lessee Bettsh-iatled Phascologale. 



Size medium, form slender and graceful. Fur long, soft and fine, 

 nearly wholly composed of underfur. General colour grey, wifcli a 

 faint tinge of rufous. Head finely grizzled grey, the hairs with a 

 nearly white subterminal band. Ears very large, leafy, almost 

 naked except at their bases, where at the origins of both outer and 

 inner margins there are well-marked tufts of bright red hair. 

 Whole of back and outsides of limbs uniformly grey, the slaty bases 

 of the hairs scarcely showing; sides with a faint rufous tinge. 

 Chin, chest, belly, and inner sides of limbs sharply defined white, the 

 greater part of the hairs white to their roots. Hands and feet 

 white ; palms with five or six pads, the pollical doubtfully divided 

 into two ; soles quite naked, with five pads, the hallucal and postero- 

 external very long, undivided ; claws small and weak. Tail long, 

 for its basal half above short-haired, rich rufous, below sharply 

 defined dark brown ; terminal half evenly, but slightly, bushy aU 

 round, uniformly black. 



SJcull (PI. XXIV. fig. 9) strongly built, flattened and broadened 

 anteriorly, as in Ph. penidllata ; muzzle short and conical. Nasals 

 small, narrow, but little expanded behind. Interorbital region 

 broad, flat, its edges square. Occipital ridges but little developed. 

 Anterior palatine foramina reaching to the centre of the canines. 

 Posterior palate with a pair of large vacuities opposite the first 

 three molars. Bullae very large and rounded, their mastoid portion 

 decidedly inflated. 



Teeth. Upper (PI. XXV. fig. 6) i.' proportionally large and 

 strong. I.^ flattened antero-extemaUy, twice as large in cross 

 section as i.^ or i.*, the latter small, cylindrical, subequal. Pre- 

 molars evenly increasing in size backwards, p.* about twice the 

 height of p.' Lower incisors broad above, very unequal in size, i.^ 

 more than twice as large as i.^, and the latter larger than the very 

 small i.' Canine with a marked posterior basal broadening. P.' but 

 little larger than p.^ ; p.* small, from one half to two thirds the size 

 of p.^ M.' with a prominent antero-internal secondary cusp. 



a (skin in al.). 



Adult. 



millim. 



Head and body (c.) 125 



TaU 147 



Hind foot 24 



Ear 20 



SkuU, see p. 299. 



