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The following notes, by Mr. Krefft, accompanied the sketches :—

“The Hydromys Lutrilla was discovered by W. S. MacLeay, Esq., on the edge of the water in front of his
beautiful seat, Elizabeth Bay. It is the only specimen yet seen, and Mr. MacLeay has presented it to the
Australian Museum.

“Fur remarkably soft, and of a vinous or brownish grey next the skin, covered with dark brown and some
sandy-coloured hairs on the flanks, and buffy hairs on the sides of the neck; throat and abdomen white; fore legs
somewhat paler than the other parts of the body, with the exception of a brown patch on the upper surface of the
feet, toes clothed with light-brown hairs ; nails white; tarsi sepia-brown; whiskers black and white intermixed,
the upper and longer hairs being the dark-coloured ones ; tail about 7 inches long, five of which are covered with

dark-brown coarse hair without any white at the tip.

 

 

 

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“ Length from tip to tip : 3 : : : : : : : ; i)
Orta : : : : : : : 7
of face to base of ear : : : ‘ ' : : ; 2
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Habitat. New South Wales.
Family CHEIROPTERA.
Genus Preropus, Briss.
141. Pteropus poliocephalus, Temm. : : : ; ; : Vol. IIE. Pl. 28.
Habitat.. Brushes of New South Wales.
142. Pteropus conspicillatus, Gould : : ; : : : : : : : ; Wolter 29:
Habitat. Fitzroy Island, off the eastern coast of Australia.
143. Pteropus funereus, Temm.  . : : : 3 5 : : : : ‘ é Wools IES PIS OF

Habitat. The northern portions of Australia.

144. Pteropus scapulatus, Peters.

Pteropus scapulatus, Peters in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd Series, vol. i. p. 231.

A description of this species has been published by Dr. W. Peters of Berlin, in the number of the ‘ Annals
and Magazine of Natural History’ for March 1863. As this description did not appear until after these pages
were in type, I have had no opportunity of examining the specimen described, and must therefore content myself
with transcribing Dr. Peters’s remarks respecting it :—

“The present species nearly approaches Pteropus medius in size, and is very easily distinguished from all other
species by two humeral spots”? of ochreous-yellow, “and also by the golden-yellow colour of the abundant woolly
hair on the ventral side of the wing-membranes, which appears near the lumbar region, on the humeral membrane,
and near the fore arm almost to its end.”

Habitat. Cape York, Northern Australia.

Genus Mo.ossus, Geof:

145. Molossus Australis, Gray : : 5 : : : ; : ‘ WO TONE, 1 sh.
Habitat. Victoria.

Genus Tarnozous, Geof

146. Taphozous Australis, Gould . : : : : : ; : ; ; : ‘ Wall, 1001, Bl, BX.

Habitat. Northern coasts of Australia.

 

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