206 OK THE NEW-GUINEA MAMMALS. 



rements: head and body 167 mm., tail 149 mm.; skull: 

 basal length 32.7 mm., greatest breadth 18 mm. (Catalo- 

 gue, 1888, p. 284). 



120. Phascogale Doriae Thomas. 



Closely allied to dorsalis. Collected by Beccari and Bruyn 

 in Mounts Arfak, Hattam. Head and body of an adult 

 female 152 mm., tail 152 mm.; skull: basal length 38.5 mm., 

 greatest breadth 21 mm. (Thomas, Catalogue, 1888, p. 283). 



121. Phascogale longicaudata Schlegel. 



The type-speciiven, a male, collected by von Rosenberg 

 at Wonoembai, one of the Arou-islands, is preserved in 

 the Leydeu-Museum ; Loria procured a female, the first 

 specimen from the mainland of New-Guinea, Haveri (700 ra.), 

 among the mountains behind the Astrolabe Range, near 

 Mt. Wori-Wori. Thomas remarked (Ann. Mus. Geuova, 

 1897, p. 621) that it seems to diUer in no important respect 

 from the description of the Arou-animal; its mammae are 

 four in number, as in Doriae and dorsalis. Head and body 

 146 mm., tail 172 mm. ; skull: basal length?, greatest breadth 

 21 mm. (Thomas, Catalogue, 1888, p. 294). 



122. Phascogale melanura Thomas. 



Based upon two specimens, male and female, from Maroka, 

 British New-Guinea (1300 m.), collected by Loria (Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, 1899, p. 191). Thomas remarked that it is 

 related to longicaudata, but smaller and with a shorter 

 tail, which is black and well haired; he gave the following 

 measurements: head and body, (f 107 mm., Q 106 mm., 

 tail 120 mm. and 128 mm.; skull Q: basal length 27 mm., 

 greatest breadth 17 mm. The smaller female has after these 

 figures a longer tail than the larger male, and in compa- 

 ring these measurements with those of longicaudaia it is 

 evident that, in proportion of head and body, the tail 

 is absolutely of the same length in both species; melanura 

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