PERAMELES OBESULA. 
Short-nosed Peranjelcs. 
Didelphys obesula (Porculine Opossum). Shaw, Naturalists' Miscellany, 
vol. via. Tab. 298; General Zool. vol. i. Pt. 2, p. 490. 
Peramtlcs obesula. Geoffroy, Anu. du Mus. iv. p. 64, PI. 45. 
Isoodon obesula. (Geoflroy) Desmabest, in Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. 
x\\. p. 409. 
Perameles fuscirenter. Gray, in the Appendix to Gray’s Journal, ii. p. 407. 
“ qffinis . Gray, List of the Mammalia in the British Museum, 
1843, p. 9G. 
Head moderately long; fur very harsh to the touch; on the upper 
parts of the body pencilled with black and rich yellow in 
about equal proportions ; on the under parts vellow-wliite : 
ears clothed with small hairs, yellow internally, and dusky 
brown externally, but paler towards the hinder margin ; 
feet palish yellow, slightly pencilled with black. Tail short, 
clothed with small hairs, dusky above, and yellowish white 
beneath. 
Inhabits New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, 
and Van Diemen’s Land. 
The hairs composing the fur of this animal are, as is most 
commonly the case, of two kinds; all that are visible (as the 
lmirs lie in their ordinary position) are very harsh to the 
touch, flattened, pointed, and glossy; upon dividing these 
coarse hairs, a soft, but somewhat scanty, under fur is visible. 
On the upper ports of the body the coarse hairs, which are 
of moderate length, are greyish white at the root, black at 
the point, and broadly annulatcd with ochreous yellow at 
some little distance below the point; the. under fur is grey: 
on the tinder parts of the body the coarse hairs are yellowish 
white, but almost pure white at the root, and the under fur is 
