MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA 621 



39. Phalanger maculatus, Desm. 



Skin in spirit. Aroma. 



Young 9 . Gerekanumu. January 1803. 



40. Perameles moresbyensis, Rams. 



6 Upuli. November 1890. 



41. Perameles cockereili, Rams. 



ad. 9 and ^ young. Haveri 8 November 1893. 



42. Phascologale wallacei, Gray. 



Skin. Upper Vanapa R. 



43. Phascologale longicaudafa, Schlegel. 



9. Haveri 700 m. 8 November 1893. 



It is of much interest to find this rare species, hitherto only- 

 known from the Aru Islands, on the main land of New Guinea. 

 The specimen seems to differ in no important respect from the 

 descriptions of the Aru animal. Its mammae are four in number, 

 as in Ph. doriae and dorsalis. 



hrk. Tachyglossus aculeatus lawesi, Rams. 



1. Gerekanumu. February 1893. 



2. No exact locality. 



I regret to have to discard the familiar name Echidna^, but as 

 ichthyologists are willing to adopt Forster's Echidna of 1788 

 for a fish, however insufficient the diagnosis, there is no alter- 

 native but to give up the name for the mammal , as only 

 dating from 1798. 



My attention has however been drawn by Mr. T. S. Palmer, 

 of Washington, who has devoted so much time and care to the 

 elucidation of mammal nomenclature, to the name " aculeata " 

 as used by Geoffroy in 1795 (}) in company with several ge- 

 neric names of Edentates , and it is suggested that this was a 

 new generic name proposed for Shaw's Myrmecophaga aculeata, 

 then quite recently described. 



To this view I cannot at all agree and am most decidedly 

 of opinion that Geoffroy had no intention of making a new 

 generic name, but was merely referring to the animal by its 

 specific name. He wrote a special paper to propose a generic 

 name, " Orycieropus ", for " Myrmecophaga afra " and it is most 



(') Bull. See. Philom. I, p. 103. 



