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P1IA8COGALE CALUKA. 
P. calura is ashy grey ; the body beneath is white, slightly 
suffused with yellow, and a delicate yellow tint is observable 
on the sides of the body. In front of the eye is a black 
patch, and a whitish spot is situated immediately beneath the 
eve. The ears are rather sparingly clothed with minute hairs, 
which are of a yellowish white colour on the inner sides, 
excepting on the anterior margin, where they are black, and 
brownish on the outer surface. The feet are of a greyish 
white hue. The apical half of the tail is densely clothed 
with glossy black hairs, averaging about half an inch in 
length, or rather more, and the basal halt is covered with 
short adpressed hairs, which are of a brilliant rust colour, 
excepting along the mesial line beneath, where, almost to 
the root of the tail, they are black. 
Malk. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail ... 5 3 
44 of tail ... ... ... . 5 2 
44 of ear ... ... ... . 8} 
44 from nose to ear ... ... . 1 2 
44 of hind foot and nails ... ... 11 
Section 2. Antechinus. 
Antcchinus. MacLkay, Annals, und Magazine of Natural History, for 
December, 1841, vol. viii. p. 242, and for January, 1842, 
vol. viii. p. 338. 
44 Gray, List of the Mammalia in the collection of the British 
Museum (18-43), p. 99. 
Phaseogalcs in which the tail is clothed throughout with very 
short hairs. 
With respect to the animal to which the generic title Anu¬ 
chinas was given by Mr. MacLeuy, that gentleman observes 
that it differs from IHiascogalo in having the three Intend 
