402 THE PE0CEEDING8 OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



Grey colour ; body covered with small round black spots, 

 forming several transverse black transversal bands, one below 

 the eye, one in front of the pectorals, and the third behind these ; 

 fins of a fine bright yellow ; the front of the head is covered with 

 five longitudinal dark lines. 



Note. — The nasal tentacles are bifid. Like Steindachner, I 

 cannot see any nasal openings. It is certain that this is the 

 species mentioned by that author. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ZOOLOGY OF NEW 



GUINEA. 

 PART III. 



Description of a new marsnqnal allied to the genus Peeameles, Geoff. 



By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., O.M.Z.S., Cor. Memb. Royal Soc, 



Tasmania ; &c. 



Perameles broadbentii, sp. nov. 

 PI. 27. 



In. 4^; can.-|=L; premol. '^; mol. 4=^. 



Mr. Kendall Broadbent was fortunate enough to obtain a 

 sino-le specimen of this fine species, at a considerable distance 

 inland from Port Moresby, in some of the dense mountain scrubs 

 on the banks of the Goldie River. It is, without doubt, the 

 largest species of the genus yet made known, and, although 

 departing somewhat from Perameles proper (chiefly in the form 

 of the skull and tail), I prefer, for the present, to keep it in this 

 genus, than to create a new one for its reception. The tail, in 

 which only a few of the vertebrae at the tip have been left, 

 appears to have been, to some extent, prehensile, and, in its 

 peculiar scaly under surface, differs from that of any other 

 species of the genus (Perameles). 



The hair is comparatively smooth, not so harsh to the touch 

 as in P. nasuta ; some of the longer black hairs are slightly 

 flattened, stiff, but not spiny, the longest about an inch in length ; 

 the under fur is soft and wavy. 



The general color is of a blackish brown ; the throat, sides, and 

 all the under surface and fore legs, fawn color, a little brighter on 



