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PIJASCOGALE SWA IN SONII. 
the upper surface. The feet are uniform dusky brown: the 
fleshy pads on their under surface are transversely striated, 
and the remaining naked portion of each foot- is apparently 
smooth. The muzzle is narrower, and more elongated than 
usual. The specimen from which the original description 
was drawn tip, measured, from the tip of the nose to the root 
of the tail, live inches and two lines in length, and its tail 
was three inches and five lines long; the animal, however, 
attains a larger size, as will be perceived from the following 
dimensions, taken from a specimen, from Tasmans Peninsula, 
in the collection of the British Museum :— 
Incbw. Linn. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail . '7 0 
•* of tail .. ... ... ... ... 4 0 
44 of tarsus ... ... ... . 11} 
44 of ear ... ... ... ... ... 4 
44 from tip of nose to ear ... . 1 4 
Mr. Gould imagined this species was identical with die 
Dasyurus minimus of Geoffrey; I have recently compared 
the two animals together, and find this is not the case. 
The skull of P. Strainsonii is proportionately narrower, 
and more elongated, than in other species of its genus, and 
its tipper surface is remarkably flat; the interorbitnl space is 
broad; the anterior upper pair of incisors arc smaller, and 
are in contact with the others, not being directed outwards 
and forwards ns in other Phoscogales, or at least very slightly 
so : a space on either side of the foremost upper premolar 
separates this tooth from the canine, or from the second pre- 
molar. The third upper premolar is about equal in size to 
the second : the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw is 
smaller than the second lower premolar. The incisive open¬ 
ings of the palate are much larger than usual, extending 
backwards so as to terminate opposite the second premolur. 
