5. SMINTHOPSIS. 303 



body, but longer in extreme northern specimens, uniformly short- 

 haired, the hairs just hiding the scales, grey or brown above, white 

 beneath. 



SJcull (see PI. XXV. figs. 8 & 9) slender, delicate ; muzzle longer 

 and narrower than in the other species. Interorbital space smooth, 

 its edges not beaded. Anterior palatine foramina extending back- 

 wards to the level of the back of the canines. Posterior palate with 

 a pair of large irregular vacuities opposite the first three molars, 

 and a second pair of much smaller and more regular ones opposite 

 m.'' Bxdlse smaU. 



Teeth (PI. XXV. fig. 7) as described above. Canines very short 

 as in S. orassicaudata. Premolars, owing to the comparatively 

 greater length of the muzzle, not touching one another. Upper p.' 

 not much larger than p.^ ; p.* disproportionally larger than either. 

 Lower p.^ quite equal to or even exceeding p.^ 



Dimensions. 



y - >^ 



c (in al.). From Cape York* 

 (in spirit). 



Adult. Adult, 



millim. millim. 



Head and body 96 80 



Tail 86 101 



Hind foot 19-3 18-7 



Ear 14 13 



Skull, see p. 308. 



Sab. Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Tasmania. 

 Type in collection. 



^ J I Ad. sks. ) , New South Wales. Gould CoH. 



' ■ I Skull of a. I ° ■ {Co-types oi Anteckinus ferrugineifrons, Gould.) 

 ^ 1 Ad. al. I , Gippsland. Purchased. 



"• ] Skull. \ ^■ 



, 1 Ad. sk. 1 J, Tasmania. Purchased. 



"• 'jSkuU. /o- (%)e of species.) 



ei. Ad. al. c?. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. fP. 



& 0.]. 

 /. Ad. skeleton. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. fP. 



& 0.]. 



3. Sminthopsis murina. 



Phascogale murina, WcOierh. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 76 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 

 Mus. Zool. Soc. p. 65 (1838) ; id. Jard. Nat. lAhr., Mamm. xi. 

 p. 143, pi. X. (animal) (1841) ; Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 

 (1841) ; Less. JY. Tail. £. A., Mamm. p. 191 (1842) ; Wagn. Sehr. 



* Belonging to the Brisbane Museum, and kindly lent me for examination by 

 Mr. De Vis. 



