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117. Phascogale melas Muller et Schlegel. 



The type, au adult male, has beeu collected by Muller 

 in the Lobo-Bay, S. W. New-Guinea, aud is preserved in 

 the Leyden-Museum ; later on it appeared that it is a 

 melauistic form of the 20 years later by Schlegel des- 

 cribed thorheckiana ; therefore melas has the priority of 

 date. Bruyn and Beccari procured specimens at Andai, 

 W. N. G., Beccari from the island Jobie, Geelvink-Bay ; 

 other specimens have beeu captured at Salawattie (Hoedt, 

 type-specimens of thorheckiana Schlegel in the Leyden- 

 Museum, and Bruyn). In the Berlin-Museum is a male- 

 specimen from Andai, from Bruyn's collections, described 

 by Peters as Chaetocercus Bruynii. Thomas (Catalogue, 1888, 

 p. 280) gives the following measures: head and body 215 

 mm., tail 201 mm.; skull: basal length 49.5 mm., greatest 

 breadth 30 mm. 



118. Phascogale Wallacei Gray. 



Wallace collected a male-specimen on the Arou-islands 

 described by Gray as Wallacei] von Rosenberg procured 

 an adult male for the Leyden-Museum also on the Arou- 

 islands; in the Berlin-Museum is a female-specimen from the 

 Fly-river, described by Peters and Doria as pilicauda, accord- 

 ing to Thomas an other name for our species; in the 

 Genoa-Museum is, besides this specimen from the Fly- 

 river by d'Albertis, an adult male, collected by d'Albertis 

 at Katau, S. N. G., and a skin from the Upper Vanapa- 

 river, procured by Loria. Head and body 185 mm., tail 

 168mm.; skull: basal length 45 mm., greatest breadth 

 26.6 mm. (Thomas, Catalogue, 1888, p. 281). 



119. Phascogale dorsalis Peters et Doria. 



The type specimens are from Hattam, Mounts Arfak, by 

 Beccari, meanwhile Bruyn procured an adult male too in 

 the Artak Mountains. Thomas gives the following measu- 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseuin, Vol. XX"VIII. 



