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PERAMELES GUNNII. 
part oi* tlie first true molar measures 1 inch lines. A 
naked space oil the upper side oi the muzzle extends back¬ 
wards nearly three quarters of an inch. 
Perumetex Lamtoni. Qoov et Gaimard. 
A large species (of Perameles), state the authors above 
mentioned, was given to us at Bathurst, beyond the Blue 
Mountains. It was perhaps about two feet in length, from 
the head to the extremity of the tail: its fur was reddish 
brown above, and yellowish beneath. It was lost in the 
shipwreck of the Urania. At p. 711 of the “ Zoologie de 
rUranie,” the name of Perumeles Lawson is proposed for 
this species. 
Such are the slender grounds upon which the Pent tuples * 
Lawsoni is inserted into catalogues of the species of 
Mammalia—a description evidently given from memory; and 
which, after all, does not include any peculiarities by which 
the animal may be distinguished from the Par ant ales nasuta, 
a specimen of which in the British Museum differs only in 
being three inches short of the guessed size of P. Lawsoni. 
PERAMELES GUNNII. 
Gunn’s Perameles. 
Perameles Gunnii. Grav, Proceedings of the Zoological Soc. for January, 
1838, Pt. 6, p. 1 ; Annals of Nat. Hist, for April, 
1838, Vol. i. p. 108. 
“ “ Waterhouse, Naturalists* Library (Marsupialia), 
p. 156, PI. 15. / 
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Upper parts of body grey, pencilled with yellow and black; 
tinder parts white, hinder part of back blackish, with 
white bands: ears with yellowish hairs internally, oxter- 
