DASYURUS ALBOPUNCTATUS. 53 



the fur is a yellowish brown, rather regularly covered, 

 with the exception of tail and head , with white spots of 

 about half an inch in diameter. 



The only specimen we possess of Das. albopunctatus is 

 due to a Dutch missionary collecting in the range of the 

 Arfak-mountains. Although adult it is somewhat smaller 

 than Das. geoffroyi , its whole length being nineteen inches , 

 from which eight and a half are occupied by the tail. It 

 has the skull larger and the snout much shorter than D. 

 geoffroyi ; but the principal difference between our new species 

 and all the others consists in the nhortness of the hair of its 

 tail , the hair of which measures hardly five lines , and in the 

 numerous small white spots, which cover the dark brown fur 

 extending to the crown of the head, but not to the tail. 

 The underparts of the animal are , as commonly , of a 

 whitish yellow. Length of the ear eight lines. 



Notes from tlie Leytlen IVlusoum, Vol. II. 



