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named authors changed this name in angustivittis, in 

 order to avoid confusion with their new Fseudochirus, viz. 

 P. Albertisii (Ann. Mus. Genova, 1880, p. 674). Albertisii 

 however has the priority of data. In 1880 Peters and 

 Doria called it a nuova specie o varieta, meanwhile Thomas 

 in his Catalogue, p. 161, looked upon it as representing 

 not more than an individual, or at most a sliglit local 

 variety of D. trivirgata. 



91. Dactylopsila palpator A. Milne Edwards. 



The Paris-Museum received through M. Laglaize a Dacty- 

 lopsila^ collected on the south coast of New-Guinea. This 

 specimen, an adult male, has been described by A. Milne 

 Edwards as the type of a new species. Head and body 

 27 cm., tail 20 cm,; skull: length 6 cm., greatest breadth 

 4.2 cm. Tail shorter than in trivirgata', there are slight 

 modifications in colour, in shape of skull a. s. o., the 

 most striking however is the great length of the fourth 

 finger (Mémoires par la Soc. phil. a I'occasion du cen- 

 tenaire de sa fondation, 1888, p. 173). In the Tring-Museum 

 are more specimens (P. Z. S. L. 1905, p. 267). 



92. Petaurus brevice.ps papuanus Thomas. 



Thomas separated the Pe^awrws-specimens from the 

 Papuan-subregion from those collected in Australia, the 

 typical locality of P. hreviceps, as a variety ^^ papuanus' * ; 

 however he remarked "of this race the most typical and 

 strongly marked examples are those from New-Guinea 

 itself and the islands to the north-west, while on the other 

 hand, Aru-island-individuals present so many resemblan- 

 ces to Port-Essington-specimens of the continental form 

 that I have found it impossible to separate specifically the 

 two geographical races" (Catalogue, 1888, p. 159). Head 

 and body 143—138 mm., tail 176 — 182 mm.; skull: 

 basal length 33.2 mm., greatest breadth 25.5 mm. In the 

 British-Museum are specimens from Doreh, N. W. N. G. 



:Notes from the Leyden DMuseum, "V^ol. XXVIII. 



