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■mac, mm, J, the first discovered by Mr. Gilbert, in West Australia; the last from the Darling Downs district, obtained 
by the same indefatigable naturalist, to whom Air. Gould is indebted for his choicest specimens. It is necessary to 
state that the figures which we see of these, animals are not quite correct, the tail being always exaggerated. 
Mi tchell’s Podabrus ( Podabrus mitchelliij . 
This species is by far the largest of the small Dasyuridce with thick woolly fur. A single mutilated specimen, 
with a note attached intimating that it was obtained by Sir Thomas Mitchell, was found in the Museum some years 
ago, and may be described as follows; — Fur thick and silky, resembling the fur of Phascogale lanigera of Gould; 
general colour, slate grey with a wash of brown, beneath white ; ears rather long ; feet white ; total length eleven inches : 
the tail being about five and a half inches, and probably furnished with a tuft of hair. The large tarsi and long tibia 
indicate that the animal moved by a succession of jumps; the specimen is, however, too much mutilated to enable 
us to judge about this characteristic with certainty. 
Habitat — The interior of New South Wales. 
GENUS ANTECHINOMYS. 
1 errestrial Dasyuridce , with long Kangaroo-like hind-legs, and four toes, the thumb being absent ; tarsi covered 
with hair, the toes only being naked. Dentition like Podabrus , with canines still less developed 
r ihe genus comprises only one species, — the animal described by Air. Gould as Phascogale lanigera. 
Woolly Antechinomys (Antechvnxmys lanigera). 
Fur long and silky, general colour greyish-brown, beneath white; tail as long as the body, with a tuft of 
moderately' long fine hairs ; progressing by a succession of jumps. The female has no pouch, and is provided with 
eight mammae. 
Habitat— The interior of New South Wales and Victoria. 
GENUS CHyETOCERCUS. 
Head short, broad behind, almost triangular ; auditory bulla very large ; upper canines strong and elongate, not 
so broad at their base as in the genus Phascogale ; incisors long and narrow, resembling those of Dasyurus, first pair 
directed forward, and slightly larger than the others ; pre-molars, three in the upper jaw, the middle one largest, the 
first somewhat smaller, and the third and last very diminutive and tubercular: molars of the usual triangular form, 
with rather blunt tubercles, increasing in size' from the first to the third, the fourth being narrow, transverse, and 
resembling the same tooth in the genus Dasyurus. The lower jaw is short and strong, and the articulating condyle 
is placed still higher comparatively than in any other species of this group; the incisors are three in number, the first 
pair being the largest ; canines smaller than those of the upper jaw, sharp and pointed, and devoid of the broad base- 
common to other small Dasyures. Of pre-molars the lower jaw contains only two, the first larger than the second. 
There are tour molars, the first and last being the smallest, the two middle ones of about equal size; on the first 
the anterior tubercle is scarcely indicated, showing, with the absent third pre-molar, a close approach to the genus 
Dasyurus. Tail thick, with compressed sides, ornamented by a crest of hair on the apical half, similar to the tail of 
the Pig-footed Bandicoot fCkceropus castanolis). 
Crested C.etocekcus ( duetocercus cristicauda) . 
General structure similar to that of Phascogale calura ; limbs strong, furnished with long claws ; five toes to 
the fore and hind feet, the inner toe of the latter a short nailless thumb, the hair covering the fore-feet long and 
shaggy ; colouration rusty-brown, the fur being of a dark leaden-grey at the base. Total length 8 inches, tail 3-J, 
head to base of ear 1, tarsi and toes 1^ inches. 
Habitat— South Australia, probably the neighbourhood of Lake Aiexandrina. 
