304 DASTTJHIDiE. 



Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 38 (1843), v. p. 204^^1855) ; ScUnz, Syn. Mamm. 



i. p. 494 (1844) ; Oieb. 8avg. p. 729 (1859). 

 Phascogale albipes, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 48 ; Sohinz, Syn. Mamm. 



i. p. 495 (1844); Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. v. p. 203 (1855) ; Gfieb. 



Sdug. p. 728 (1869). 

 Phascogale (Antechinus) albipes andrmmna, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. 



i. pp. 421, 425 (1846). 

 Antechinus fuliginosus, Oould, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xli. (animal) 



(]852). 

 Antechinus albipes, Oould, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xlii. (1852) ; Oerrard, 



Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 137 (1862); Kreft, Cat. Mamm. 



Austr. Mus. p. 80 (1864) ; Cray, Voy. Ereb, TeiT., Mamm. p. 12 c, 



pi. xxvii. fig. 1 (animal) (1875) ; Higg. §• Pett. P. Roy. Sob. Tasm. 



1883, p. 196. 

 Antechinus murinus, Oould, Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xliii. (animal) 



(1852). 

 Phascogale fuliginosa, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. v. p. 205 (1856). 

 Podabrus fuliginosus, murinus, and albipes, Krefft, P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 433 ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 15 (1871). 



Common Pottched Motjse. 



General proportions slender and delicate. Pur soft and fine, with 

 very few longer hairs. General colour finely grizzled mouse-grey, 

 rather variable in tone according to the amount of the longer darker 

 hairs present. Face with an indistinct darker mark in front of and 

 round the eyes, and sometimes with a faint darker mesial stripe 

 along the muzzle. Ears very variable in size ; laid forward (in 

 spirit-specimens) they reach to, and in some specimens beyond, the 

 anterior canthus of the eye ; their backs uniformly slaty flesh-colour. 

 Chin white ; chest and belly mixed grey and white, the degree to 

 which the slaty grey of the bases of the hairs shows though very 

 variable; line of demarcation on sides generally sharply marked. 

 Hands and feet, and sometimes forearms, pure white ; palms naked, 

 granulated. Soles (PI. XXIII. fig. 7) hairy under the caleaneum 

 and along the edges, -the remainder naked, finely granulated, the 

 projections at the bases of the toes without distinct transversely 

 striated pads, although on their summits several of the granulations 

 sometimes coalesce and form small irregular and smooth pads. 

 Tail just about the length of the head and body, slender, not 

 incrassated, evenly short-haired, brown above, grey or white below. 

 Mammse 8. 



Skull smaller and with rather a shorter broader muzzle than in 

 8. leucopus, but otherwise quite similar. 



Teeth as usual. Upper p.", as a rule, proportionally more deve- 

 loped than in S. leueopus, so that the three premolars increase evenly 

 in size ; but even this character is not always constant. 



Upper mirk-p." (stiU in position in specimen o) of considerable 

 size, about equal in cross-section to the canine, triangular, multi- 

 cuspid, very much as in Phascologale. 



