VIAGGIO DI LAMBERTO LORIA 



NELLA PAPUASIA ORIENTALE 



XIX. 



ON THE MAMMALS COLLECTED IN BRITISH NEW GUINEA 



BY DR. LAMBERTO LORIA 



BY OLDFIELD THOMAS, BRITISH MUSEUM 



(Plate II). 



By the kindness of Dr. Gestro, I have been entrusted with 

 the examination of tlie large collection of Mammals made by 

 Dr. Lamberto Loria in British New Guinea between 1890 and 

 1893, and presented by liim to the Museo Civico, Genoa. The 

 collection numbers several hundred individuals , mostly of bats 

 and Muridae, and is therefore of considerable importance so far 

 as our knowledge of the Papuan members of these groups are 

 concerned. Of especial interest is the large number of specimens 

 belonging to the genus Pogonomys — the prehensile tailed rats, 

 — of which Dr. Loria obtained no less than five species, three 

 of them being new. 



Of other Muridae particular attention may be drawn to Lepto- 

 mys, a new genus belonging to the Hydromyinae, a group whose 

 extension to the Philippine Islands has recently been discovered 

 by Mr. .John Whitehead , and one which may be expected to 

 turn up in other islands in the archipelago as tlieir mountain 

 faunas are more fully investigated. 



Of Marsupials Dr. Loria has discovered a handsome new 

 Phalanger {Pseudochirus corinnae), besides getting several other 

 rarities, such as Dendrolagus doriamis^ Dorcopsis macleayi and 

 Phascologale longicaudata. 



With their usual generosity the authorities of the Genoa 

 Museum have presented X\w British Museum with a duplicate 



