LONG-NOSED PERAMELES. 
375 
visible portions pencilled with pale brown, and blackish; on 
the sides of the body the black is almost entirely absent, and 
here, as well as oil the sides of the head, the general tint is 
purplish red, hut very pale. The under parts of the body 
are yellowish white, and the hairs on these parts are uniform 
to the root. The feet are dirty white; the fore leg is greyish 
at the base externally, and there is a dusky patch immediately 
above the heel of the hind foot. The ears are of moderate 
size, broad at the base, and considerably attenuated at the 
opposite extremity; they are clothed with very small hairs, 
whitish on the inner side, and dusky on the outer, but pale 
brown near the anterior angle. The tail is furnished with 
small stiff hairs, dusky or brownish on the upper surface, and 
dirty white on the under. 
Mus. Zool. Soc. liu it. Mus. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
ngth from tip of nose to root of tail 
1 G 
0 
16 
0 
‘ of tail 
4 
G 
5 
0 
‘ from nose to ear . 
4 
0 
4 
1 
‘ of ear 
* of fore foot and nails. 
‘1 
0 
1 
1 
4 
11 * 
‘ of tarsus, including the nails 
3 
2 
3 
5 
The cranium of the Peramcles nasufa, according to 
Geoffroy’s figure in the Annales du Museum, is 3f inches in 
length; from the orbit to the apex of the intermaxillaiies, 
2 inches 1-t lines; horn the front of the upper foremost 
incisor to the canine, half an inch; lrom the front of the 
first incisor to the back of the last molar, 1 inch lOf lines ; 
from ditto to first true molar, 1 inch 3i- lines. 
In a specimen in the British Museum, I find the fourth 
and fifth incisors of the upper jaw separated by a space of two 
fines, and from the front of the foremost incisor to the same 
* The longest nails of the-fore foot in this specimen are IO 5 lines in length, 
apt! of the hind foot lines. 
