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molar-like posterior half. The cutting edge of the anterior part 

 forms a sort of continuation of the edge of the temporary pre- 

 molar, and is higher than the two molar-like cusps of the posterior 

 portion of the tooth. 



The Molars are macropodiform, smaller than those of the upper 

 jaw, and presenting some -differences in the shape of the trans 

 versal ridges. (Fig. 10 and fig. 11.) 



Habitat. The specimen of Dorcopsis Chalmersii has been, as 

 already mentioned, caught by the natives of the mainland of New 

 Guinea, opposite Dinner Island, one of the small islands in the 

 China Strait. The coast in that locality is hilly and intersected by 

 grassy plains. The D. Chalmersii is found solitary, not in mobs. 



During my stay of about one month at Aruabada (the principal 

 village of Port Moresby) I saw numbers of Macropus papuanus 

 (called by the natives there " Makane "), but never met a single 

 Dorcopsis. Dorcojysis luctuosa appears to be plentiful further 

 north. Signer D'Albertis mentions in his book (1), that during 

 his stay in one of the villages near Hall Sound, " that at dusk 

 several men and women arrived in the village on their return from 

 hunting the Kangaroo, or 'Barai' (Dorcopsis luctuosa), of which 

 they have killed twenty. They use long nets in hunting, with 

 which they surround its haunts, and when it is entangled in the 

 nets they kill it with clubs." 



The specimen of D. luctuosa in the Australian and Macleay 

 Museum, have been received from Mr. Goldie, who got them 

 inland, at some distance from Port Moresby. The name for 

 Dorcopsis luctuosa in use by the natives of the Motu tribe (on the 

 coast near Port Moresby) is " Gove." 



(1.) L. M. D' Albertis. New Guinea. Vol. I., p. 295. 



