146 ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF DORCOPSIS, 



DoRcopsis Beccarii. N. sp. (Figs. 1-4.) 

 Adult 2 from the hills in the vicinity of Hanuabada, on the 



South Coast of New Guinea. (Skin at the Macleay Museum.) 

 Some meas7trements taken on the skin : — 



From tip of nose to end of tail 



Lengtli of tail ... 



From tip of nose to occiput ... 



Length of ear (measured from behind) 



Length of hand ... ... about 



Length of foot about 



4 nipples in the pouch. 



Colour of fur : Dark grey, with a brownish tinge. The back, 

 hands and feet very little darker than the breast, and only near 

 the arms and on the base of the tail the brownish grey fur aj^pears 

 slightly tinged with rufous. 



Each hair (of the back) is dark grey on the base, and of a much 

 lighter tint for nearly | of the hairs length. 



The muzzle with a deep median groove is bare and covered with 

 a black scaly skin. 



The lai'ge glandular hairfollicles on the laryngeal region are 3 in 

 number, but not placed exactly in the median line (as is the case 

 in Dorcopsis luctuosa and Dorcopsis Chalmersii.) Similar hair- 

 follicles appear as well on the upper lip, over the inner canthus of 

 the eye, and others some distance behind and below the outer canthus. 



Uars not large, with some light brown hair on the posterior 

 margin near the meatus ; the inside of the concha nearly bare, 

 showing blackish skin. 



The hair on the nape of the neck of Dorcojms Beccarii is as in 

 D. luctuosa and B. Chalmersii directed forward. The converging 

 point between the shoulders is 195 mm., (about 7, Tin.) behind the 

 behind the occiput. 



The tip of the tailifi white and bare, showing large elongated scales. 



The skull of Dorcopsis Beccarii (Fig. 1) resembles that of 

 Dorcopsis Brunii, of which very good representations are given on 

 the plates appended to the work of Schlegel and Miiller (1) ; it is 



{\) H. Schlegel en S. Aluller: Over drie Biudeldieren uit de familie der 

 kengoeroes (published as a part of the Verhandelingen over de Niituurlijke 

 Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overezesche Bezittengen door de Leden 

 der Naturkundige Commissie en andere Schi-ijvers, uitgegeven op last van 

 den Koning door C. T. Temminck, 1839-1844. Plates XXXIII. and XXIV. 



