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112. Perameles Broadbenti Ramsay. 



The type-specimen iu the Syduey-Museum is up to the 

 present clay a unicum. Is it really distinct from rafrayana? 

 Thomas (Catalogue, 1888, p. 241) said that the distinc- 

 tion of this species from raffrayana appears to be somewhat 

 doubtful; the peculiar structure and apparently prehensile 

 nature of the tail, however, induced him for the present 

 to retain the species as distinct. The tail is long, scaly 

 above, covered with transverse flattish scaly tubercles below, 

 to the very tip, blackish above for about two thirds of 

 its length, from thence fawncolour to the tip, sparingly 

 clothed with short hair. Head and body of the type, an 

 aged male, 508mm., tail 200 ram.; skull: basal length 

 98 mm., greatest breadth 43 mm. Hab. S. E. New-Guinea. 



113. Perameles longicaudata Peters et Doria. 



The typical and only specimen is an adult female in 

 the Genoa-Museum, collected by Beccari at Hattam, 

 Mounts Arfak, N. W. New-Guinea. This unicum has been 

 measured by Peters and Doria as having head and body 

 260 mm. and tail 185 mm. (Ann. Mus. Genova, 1876, 

 p. 335 and 1880, p. 672), and by Thomas as having 

 head and body 272 mm., tail 197 ram.; skull: basal length 

 56.5 mm., greatest breadth 23 mm, (Catalogue, 1888, 

 p. 242). 



114. Perameles ornata Thomas. 



Based upon a single adult male-specimen from Avera, 

 Aroa-river, British New-Guinea, collected by Meek. Essen- 

 tial characters all very much as in longicaudata^ to whose 

 immediate neighbourhood it is brought by all the charac- 

 ters used iu the synopses of species, both external and 

 cranial, of the "Catalogue of Marsupials". Skull and teeth 

 agreeing word for word with the description of those parts of 

 longicaudata. Head and body 300 ram., tail 177 mm.; 



Notes from the Leyden Musevmi, Vol. XXVUl. 



