474 
DIDELPI1YS CANCRIVORA. 
The following description is drawn up from specimens of 
D. cancrivota contained in the collection of the British 
Museum. 
Female. 
Male? 
Male. | 
Ins. Lim^. 
lu». Lines. 
Ins. Linrs. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail 
17 0 
14 0 
15 2 
'• of tail, about ... ... ... ... 
15 0 
13 0 
1C 3 
44 from nose to ear 
3 8 
2 7 
3 6 
44 of car ... . . 
1 3 
1 3 
44 of fore foot and nails 
1 7 
1 0 
1 6 
44 of hind foot and nails . 
2 3 
1 11 
2 2 
44 of inner toe of ditto, about 
7 
44 of skull ... . 
3 10* 
3 9J 
44 of ditto from hinder root of zygoma 
to apex of intermaxillary boors ... 
3 1} 
3 5 j 
Width of ditto ... ... ••• **• 
1 10J 
1 10J 
Length of nasal bones . 
1 10 
1 9J 
Width of ditto towards Uic hinder part 
01 
44 44 in front 
3 
Length of palate ... ... . 
2 4 
2 2|i 
Width of ditto between the Undermost 
molars ... 
9} 
9 1 
Length of posterior palatine openingsf ••• 
6 
:* 
44 of four upper true molar teeth taken 
together .. 
91 
44 of lower jaw ... ... ... 
3 04 
3 1 
Height of diUo from apex of coronoid 
process ... ... ... ... ... 
' 1 
1 1 
The fur is glossy, rather lmrsh to the touch, and by no 
means dense; on all parts of the body it is long, hut on 
* Allowance being made for a small portion which Is lost, the skull beiat 
fractured behind. 
t These openings arc long and narrow , and situated partly in the palatine 
portion of the superior maxillary hours, and partly in the palatines; in these 
latter bouc» arc four other openings of about y*g of an inch iu diameter; they 
arc all nearly in the same transverse line, mid near the termination of the 
palate. 
