BROAD-PACED RAT-KANGAROO. 
281 
Fkmai.k. 
Inches. Lines. 
Width between orbits .. . 8 
41 of muzzle in a line with the front of 
the premolar . 10J* 
Length from front of foremost incisors to 
premolar ... . 101 
“ of the five molar teeth, taken to¬ 
gether .. 9j 
’* (of which, the premotnr is a trifle 
more than . 2J) 
HYPS1PRYMNUS (Polorous) PLATYOPS. 
Broad-faced Knt- Kangaroo. 
Htfpt ipry m nt uplatyops. Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 
June, 184-1, p. 103. 
Head short and broad; muzzle naked at the extremity only; ears 
small; tarsi short: fur very long, and rather soft; general 
colour grey brown, with distinct pcnciUlnga of white; under 
parts brownish white; feet brownish white; the tarsi finely 
pencilled with browuish in front: tail with small hairs 
applied to the skin, and of a deepish brown colour, almost 
black on the apical half; beneath, brown-white. 
Inhabits Western Australia. 
This is a small ami very distinct species, readily distin¬ 
guished from Hyps, minor and 77. Gilbert ii. by its having 
the tip of the muzzle naked in front only ; in the two species 
just named the naked part of the muffle being extended 
somewhat on the upper surface. The lmirs constituting the 
lur, arc, on the hack, grey at the root, then yellowish brown, 
and this is followed by a long space in each hair which is 
white, and this again is followed by black, that being the colour 
* The same part in a skull of H. murinus, of the same size as the above 
skull, measures 8J lines. 
