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MYRMECOBIUS FASCIATUS. 
Tbe Banded Myrmecobius. 
( Plate 14, fig. 1.) 
Myrmecobius fasciatus. Waterhouse, Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
for July, 1836, Part nr. p. 69; Transactions of 
the Zoological Society, Vol. ii. Part ii. p. 149, 
Plates 27 and 28 ; Naturalist*' Library (Mirra- 
pialia), Vol. xi. p. 145, Plate 11. 
*• ** Gould, Mammals of Australia, Part i. PI. 10. 
44 fasciotuM nnd Dicmenenri*. Gray, List of the Mammalia in the 
British Museum (1813), p. 100. 
Fur harsh and somewhat ad pressed ; of a bright rusty red colour, 
and pencilled with white, but almost black on the hinder 
parts of the body, and yellowish white on the under parts; 
numerous transverse, white, or cream-coloured bands cross 
the back; are distinct on the hinder parts, but become 
indistinct, and are interrupted, as they approach the 
shoulders. A black mark runs along the side of the muzzle, 
and, passing through the eye, terminates near the ear, which 
latter is rather small, pointed, and well clothed with small 
hairs, which are almost entirely black on the outer surface, 
and of a rusty yellow' hue on the inner: feet of a pale nut 
colour. The long hairs of the tail are chiefly black at tbe 
basal half, and yellow-white at the terminal half; hut the 
mesial line of the tail is of a bright rust colour on the under 
surface. 
Inhabits Western and Southern Australia. 
The Banded Myrmecobius was first discovered by Lieut. 
Dale, who procured a specimen whilst on an exploring expe¬ 
dition into tbe interior of tbe Swan River settlement, about 
ninety miles to the south-east of tbe mouth of the river. 
