302 DASTTJEIDiE. 



' This interesting species has only recentlj' been properly described, 

 the type specimen, of which the locality was unknown, having dis- 

 appeared, and nothing more being known about the species than 

 was contained in the original description. In 1883, however, the 

 animal was rediscovered at Herbert Vale, Central Queensland, by 

 Dr. C. Lumholtz, and by hinl transmitted to the Christiania Museum, 

 to whose director, Hr. E. CoUett, I am indebted for the opportunity 

 of examining the specimen from which his description and figures 

 were taken. 



2. Sminthopsis leucopus. 



Phascogale leucopus, Qray, Ann. Mag. N. H. x. p. 261 (1842) ; 



Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 496 (1844). 

 Antechinus leucopus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 100 (1843) ; 



Gould, Mamm. Ausir. pi. xxxv. (animal) (1860) ; Gerrard, Cat. 



Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 136 (1862) ; Gray, Voy. Ereh. Terr., 



Mamm. p. 12 h, pi. xxvii. fig. 2 (animal) (1864) ; Higg. ^ Pett. P. 



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

 Phascogale (Antechinus) leucopus, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 423 



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

 Antechinus ferrugineifrons, Gquld, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xxxvi. 



(animal) (1854) ; Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 32 (1864) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 432. 

 Podabrus leucopus, Krefft, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 433. 

 Podabrus mitchelli, Krefft, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 488; id. Aiistr. Vert. 



p. 15 (1871). 

 Podabrus ferrugineifrons, Krefft, Austr. Vert. p. 15 (1871). 

 Antechinus leucogenys, Sigg. ^ Pelt. P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1882, 



p. 172. 



WhITE-EOOTED PotrCHED MOTTSE. 



Size larger than in the following species ; form slender. Fur 

 close, fine and straight, composed almost wholly of underfur. 

 General colour above uniform dark greyish brown or mouse-colour, 

 sometimes suffused with orange-rufous on the head ; no prominent 

 markings anywhere. Ears (PI. XXIII. fig. 5) large and broad, 

 laid forwards they reach just to the anterior canthus of the eye ; 

 very thinly clothed with short grey hairs ; their backs uniform 

 slaty grey. Hairs of back slaty blue for nine tenths of their length, 

 their extreme tips fawn or brown, the few longer hairs black. Chin 

 pure white, chest and belly white, but with the bases of the hairs 

 slaty grey ; the passage on the sides from the colour of the back 

 gradual. Limbs to wrists and ankles like back, hands and feet pure 

 white. Palms finely granulated, with six pads. Soles (PI. XXIII. 

 fig. 6) finely hairy posteriorly, naked and coarsely granulated an- 

 teriorly, the naked part reaching backwards in the centre to about 

 halfway between the heel and the base of the hallux ; sole-pads 

 present, but small, four in number, three anteriorly at the bases of 

 the toes, one at the base of the hallux ; all finely striated trans- 

 versely. Tail slender, generally rather shorter than the head and 



