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MURIDAE RECORDED FROM VICTORIA 
a few silvery hairs at the tip. Tail brown above, whitish beneath; scales 
about 19 to centimetre; clothed with stiff hairs which are longer and more 
numerous towards the tip. Manus and pes sparsely clothed with silvery 
adpressed hair. Pes long and, as far as can be judged from the dried skin, 
very slender. Metatarsal pads very small. 
Skull. — Owing to its crushed condition little can be said of the general 
form of the skull. The anterior edge of the zygomatic plate is almost evenly 
concave and does not project above. The palatal foramina is long and (in 
the present specimen) extends backwards to the anterior third of M 1 . Inter- 
orbital region wide, flat, and with squared edges. 
Teeth. — The molars are unworn and the rather bold laminae show little 
tilting. Incisors slender and narrow. 
Dimensions of Skin. — Head and body, 99 mm.; tail, 101 mm.; hind foot, 
24-8 mm.; ear, 18 mm. 
Dimensions of Skull. — Back of frontals to front of incisor teeth, 18 8 mm. ; 
interorbital breadth, 4 3 mm.; palate length, 14- 5 mm.; palatal foramina, 
5 mm.; diastema, 6 5 mm.; upper molars 4 5 mm. 
Type Locality. — New South Wales. 
Though it differs slightly from his description there can be 
no doubt that this is the mouse described by Waterhouse, It 
has not been recognized in Victoria for nearly eighty years 
and nothing is known regarding its habits. Gould ’s specimens 
taken in South Australia may, or may not belong to this 
species, but of these he says : 
“It inhabits the sides of grassy hills where the soil is loose; its 
burrows, which are constructed about six. inches below the surface, are 
often of great extent, and it is generally found in small families of from 
four to eight in number, inhabiting the same burrow and even the same 
nest of dried grass.” 
Subgenus Leggadina. 
Size small. Form of skull normal. Front edge of zygo- 
matic plate straight or convex as in ordinary murines. Palatal 
foramina narrow. Paraptervgoid fossae broad, shallow, 
scarcely hollowed, the ectopterygoids bordering it externally 
low, not or scarcely raised above the level of its floor. Molars 
variable but always with a well-marked anterio-internal cusp 
on M 1 . 
Pseudomys (Leggadina) novae-hollandiae (Waterhouse). 
M us novae-hollandiae Waterhouse, P.Z.S., p. 146, 1842 ; Gould, Mamm. 
,Aust., iii, pi. xxii, 1863; Ogilby, Aust. Mus. Cat., No. 16, Aust. 
Mamm., p. 109, 1892. 
Pseudomys (Gyomys) novae-hollandiae Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
(8) vi, p. 607, 1910. 
Pseudomys ( Leggadina ) novae-hollandiae Brazenor, Mem. Nat. Mus., 
Melb., No. 9, p. 9, 1936. 
