II A PA LOT IS A PIC A LIS, Gould. 
White-tipped Hapalotis. 
Hapalotis apicalis , Gould, in Proc of Zool. Soc., 1851, p. 126. 
This new species is about the size of, and similar in colour to, H . albipes, but it differs in having larger 
ears, much more delicately formed feet, the tail nearly destitute of the long brushy hairs towards the tip, 
and smaller eyes. 
I possess a single example only of this species ; it was procured by Mr. Strange in South Australia. 
There is an animal in spirits in the British Museum, presented by R. C. Gunn, Esq., from Van Diemen’s 
Land, which accords very closely with it in the colouring of the fur, and in the rat-like form of the tail ; 
it is, however, of much smaller size, and in all probability will prove to he a new species. 
Face and sides of the neck blue-grey ; upper part of the head, space between the ears, the ears and upper 
parts of the body pale brown, interspersed with numerous fine black hairs ; under surface white ; flanks 
mingled grey and huffy white ; fore feet white, with an oblique mark of dark brown separating the white 
from the greyish brown of the upper surface ; hinder tarsi and feet white ; basal three-fourths of the tail 
brown, apical fourth thinly clothed with white hairs. 
The figures are the size of life. 
