BY C. W, DE VIS. 



Ill 



beneath ; a blotch behind the shoulder and a nuchal band, 

 nearly black ; loreal and facial streaks, distinct, but ill-formed ; 

 ears very scantily clothed within, and scantily w^ithout ; with a 

 very narrow black edge externally ; hind feet rusty-grey ; tail 

 furred but a short distance on the base, for the rest clothed with 

 scanty, short adpressed hairs, greyish laterally, blackish 

 superiorly ; apical two inches pale grey above and below. 



Inches. Inches. 



Total length of adult female 30i Of snout ... If 



Length of tail 12 Of shank ... of 



■ Of head 3f Of hind foot 4f 



Of ears ... ... ... ... 2 



This pretty little wallaby, or padymelon, found in the scrubs 

 around Somerset, with some features in common with those 

 of Jardinii, has so juvenile a look that, at the first sight of its 

 skin in spirits, it seemed to be the young of its larger companion ; 

 but the specimen described is a female, which has borne young. 

 On the middle part of the back and upper part of the flanks 

 posteriorly it presents a patchy mixture of black and gre}^ with 

 a reddish tinge, the black extending forwards along the nape 

 and over the head to a vanishing point before the eyes. The 

 dark blotch above tlie axil contrasts with the grey fawn of the 

 fore-shoulder and side of the nape, and with the purer grey of 

 a large semi-circular space behind it. The rufous colour of the 

 head descends upon the cheek, and separates the pale facial 

 streak from the grey of the chin. The dark loreal stripe is 

 short and broad, and cut off from the angle of the mouth by 

 the facial stripe, which descends from the eye, and is continued 

 horizontally upon the upper lip. The femoral streak is an 

 elongate, oval blotch, on a level with the knee-joint. The lower 

 edge of the flank is fawn, and divides the darker shade of the 

 flank above from the dusky- white of the abdomen. The chest 

 and throat ai-e buffy-white. The third upper incisor smooth, 

 without any fold. 



Halmaturus temporalis. 



Size, small ; habit, elongate ; tarsi and tail, rather short ; 

 ears, moderate, obtusely pointed ; fur, moderately short and 

 soft ; rufous-brown on the back, finely pencilled with black ; 

 on the neck and shoulders and base of the tail dark-gi*ey, 

 pencilled with yellowish-white ; side of the head to the ears, a 

 spot behind the base of the ears, and the shanks rufous ; a 

 distinct facial streak ; indistinct loreal and femoral streaks ; a 

 dark spot on the chin ; tip of the tail white ; a short dorsal 

 streak ; hands and feet brown. 



