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Show 548 PROF. R. COLLETT ON PHASCOLOGALE VIRGINIA- [Dec. 7, 8. On Phascologale Virginia?, a rare Pouched Mouse from Northern Queensland. By ROBERT COLLETT, C.M.Z.S. [Eeceived December 2, 1886.] (Plate LX.) PHASCOLOGALE VIRGINIA, De Tarragon, 1847. (Plate LX.) Phascologale virginice, De Tarr. Revue Zool. 1847, p. 177. Diagn. Skull with strong sagittal and occipital crests, and distinct processus postorbitales. Incisors almost equal ; upper canine very long. First premolar very small; third the largest. Ossa palatina with foramina ; pars mastoidea scarcely inflated behind the bullae. Ears large, almost naked; tail as long as the body and head, scantily clothed with adpressed hairs. Hind feet slender, hallux very short; sole of metatarsus naked in the middle line ; tuberculated callosities at the base of tbe toes. Colour blackish, grizzled with silvery white ; head reddish grey, with a black stripe from nose to between the ears, and trace of another on the side of the snout. Below greyish ; feet pale red, tail reddish grey with black tips l. Measurements, taken from the stuffed specimen :- millim. Length of body (with head) about 125 Length of tail 120 From tip of snout to ear 32 Height of ear, exterior margin 20*5 Height of ear, interior margin 14*5 Sole of hind foot (with claw) 33 Fur rather short, not woolly ; each hair bluish grey at the base, the outer third white with black tip, some hairs entirely black. Feet slender; point of hallux not nearly reaching to the base of the toes. Skull. The skull is strongly built, with high sagittal and occipital crests, and a distinct processus postorbitalis ; the dentition is, however, comparatively weak. millim. Length of skull 31*5 Breadth across arcus sygomaticus 19 Height 12 Shortest breadth between orbits 5*5 Breadth before the commencement of a. zygomaticus. 12 Length of tooth-series in upper jaw 15 Length of tooth-series in lower jaw 13 Dentition : - I . f ; C. \ ; P. j ; M . { (46). 1 The colour of the tail and snout is rather indistinct, the hairs being very much worn. |
