180 ON THE NEW-GUINEA MAMMALS. 



44. Mus Goliath A. Milne Edwards. 



This species together with the following are the last 

 products of the pen of the late Alphonse Milne Edwards — 

 il a rédigé ce travail pen de jours avant sa mort (Oustalet, 

 Bull, du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 1900, p. 165). 



It belongs to the largest mice known ; it has been 

 collected: "dans la partie haute du bassin de la riviere 

 Aroa, la Nouvelle Guinee anglaise, a une altitude de 3000 

 a 7000 pieds". 



45. Mus barbatus A. Milne Edwards. 



Very like Mus Goliath ; from the Aroa-river, British 

 New-Guinea. 



46. Mus terrae reginae Alston. 



Fide Oldfield Thomas (Ann. Mus. Genova, 1897, p. 

 611) Mus ringens Peters et Doria appears to be certainly- 

 synonymous with Alston's species. One specimen, viz. the 

 type of ringens, described in the Ann. Mus, Civ. Genova, 

 1880/81, p. 700, after a female from the Fly-river, has 

 been collected by d'Albertis. Mr. Monckton, from Port- 

 Nelson, presented a male to the British-Museum, captured 

 in N. E. Br. N. G., at 8° 30' S. lat. and 148° E. long. 

 Thomas exhibited two males from Gerekanumu, on the 

 southern slope of the Astrolabe Range, collected by Loria, 

 1893. 



47. Mus praetor Thomas. 



It has a strong superficial resemblance to Mus terrae 

 reginae, from which however it readily may be distinguished 

 by its shorter ears, darker coloured feet, much shorter and 

 wholly black tail and especially by its possession of two 

 pairs of pectoral mammae instead of only one. Head and 

 body 168 and 188 mm., tail 118 and 134 mm. — Thomas 

 said that specimens of this species were known from Aola, 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXVIII. 



