306 bastueidjE. 



n, 0. Ad. & imm. al., J • J- Beazley [C.]. 



Ad. st. I , West Australia. Purchased. 



Skull. ° • 



H 



4. Sminthopsis crassicaudata. 



Phascogale crassicaudata, Oould, P. Z.\S. 1844, p. 105 ; Wayn. iSchr. 



Saug. Supp. v. p. 206 (1865) ; Schleg. Dierk. p. 137 (1857) ; Oieh. 



Saug. p. 729 (1859) ; Oeirard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 135 



(1862); Schleg. Diermt.v- 162 (1872). 

 Podabrus crassieaudatus. Gould, Mamm. Austr. pi. xlvii. (animal) 



(1845) ; Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 32 (1864) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 433; id. Austr. Vert. p. 16 (1871). 

 Podabrus macrurus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 79 ; id. Mamm. Austr. 



i. pi. xlvi. (animal) (1849) ; K7-efft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus. 



p. 32 (1864) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 433 ; id. Austr. Vert. p. 15 



(1871). 

 Phascogale (Anteohinus) macrura and crassicaudata, Watei-h. iV. H. 



Mamm. i. pp. 426 & 428, pi. xv. fig. 2 (animal) (1846). 

 Phascogale macrura, Wagn. Sohr. Siiug. Supp. v. p. 205 (1855) ; 



Schleg. Dierh. p. 137 (1857) ; Gieb. Saug. p. 729 (1859) ; Gerrard, 



Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 136 (1862) ; Schkg. Dierent. p. 162 



(1872) ; Jmt. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 303 (1887). 

 Antechinus crassieaudatus. Gray, Voy. Ereb. Terr. p. 12 b, pi. xxvi. 



fig. 1 (animal) (1864). 

 Antechinus (Podabrus) froggatti. Mams. P. Linn. Soc. N, S. TV. (2) 



ii. p. 562 (1887). 



ISiT-TAILED P0T7CHED MoirSB. 



Size very small, form light and delicate. Fur very soft and fine, 

 composed almost wholly of underfur, without any admixture of 

 longer, coarser hairs. General colour clear ashy grey. Face with a 

 yellowish tinge, especially between the eyes and ears. Ears very 

 large, pointed or narrowly rounded off, laid forward they reach 

 considerably beyond the eye ; their backs dark brown anteriorly, 

 then yellowish flesh-colour, and posteriorly slaty grey, the anterior 

 dark band contrasting markedly with the rest ; inside of ear with a 

 few short yellowish hairs along the edges. Back uniform grey, 

 more or less tinged with yellow, the hairs dark slate for their basal 

 four fifths and their tips pale grey or yellow. Chin white, chest 

 and belly greyish white. Hands and feet white. Palms naked, 

 coarsely granulated with fine projections, on which the pads are 

 vague and rudimentary, without transverse striations. Soles 

 (PI. XXIII. fig. 8), except the anterior fourth, and a narrow line 

 extending backwards down the centre, thickly clothed with velvety 

 hairs; naked part coarsely granulated, the large trefoil-shaped 

 projection without distinct striated pads. Tail generally short, 

 rather variable in length, incrassated, tapering, grey above and 

 wtite beneath. Mammre 10. 



