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PERAMELES FASCIATA. 
Wliite-bandcd Perameles. 
Perameles fasciata. Gray, in the Appendix to Capt. Grey’s Journals of 
Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and 
Western Australia, Vol. ii. p. 407. 
Fur moderately long, and harsh to the touch ; on upper parts ot 
the body pencilled with black and yellow in about equal 
proportions; on the sides of the body the yellow prevails, 
and on the hinder part of the back the black prevails as a 
ground colour; but here are three broad yellow-wliite bands, 
the foremost of which crosses the back, the other two run 
obliquely downwards and backwards from the mesial line; 
the hindermost of these two is almost longitudinal, and the 
one in front of this joins the foremost band—these bands 
are interrupted on the middle of the back; the feet and 
under parts of the., body are "white; the tail is also white, 
but along the whole upper surface the hairs are partly black 
and partly yellow, but chiefly the former. 
Inhabits Liverpool Plains, and South Australia. 
The ears of this species are rather long, very broad at the 
base, and much attenuated towards the opposite extremity; 
the posterior margin is indistinctly emarginated; they are 
clothed with very small adpressed hairs; those on the inner 
surface are yellowish white, and those on the outer of a pale 
rusty yellow, but blackish on the fore part, if we except an 
orange-coloured spot at the base, joining the anterior angle. 
As in Per. Gunnii, the fringes of hairs bordering the sides 
of the tarsus are dusky. The hairs on the under parts of the 
body are uniformly white; those on the upper parts are pale 
grey at the root, rusty yellow near the point, and black at the 
point. The under, softer fur, is dense on the upper parts of 
