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is large, but in otliers decidedly short, Und shorter than in any other 

 genus üf this family. 



43. JPseudochirus herbertensis (Coll.) 1884 (Typus). 



Phalangista herbertensis Coll. in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 383, 



pl. 30 and fig. 3 — 4, (1884). 



Diagu,: Ears very short, almost liidden in the für. 

 The end of the tail is provided with short, but slightly 

 adpressed hairs. 



The colour above, and the entire head is brownish 

 black; beneath, in the male, snowy white with a white 

 ring round the elbow, in the female, greyish white, 

 without ring. Tail black with white tip. 



Nasalia long, forming together a central keel; in 

 the suture with the frontalia they form a rather deep 

 angle (open in front). The intermaxillary suture divi- 

 des the nasal suture about the middle. Auditory bullae 

 small. Foramina palatina wanting; for am incisi va long. 



The teeth comparatively disperse d. Inthelowerjaw 

 p^ is wanting; also c and^^ are rudimentary or wanting. 



Dentition: i |, c \^ p |, m f (38). 



A. Male. Lower Herbert, Nov. 1882 (skin with skull and in- 

 complete skeleton). 



B. Female. Lower Herbert, 25*'^ Decbr. 1882 (skin with skull). 



The first specimen was shot during the same expedition, in which 

 Hypsiprymnodon and Basyurus maculatus were obtained. Several 

 individuals were seen, amongst them at least one other male individual 

 which appeared to be larger than the first, and presented the same 

 snowy white lower surface and white rings on the fore-hmbs. Later 

 on, yet another individual, a female, was secured ; although the colour 

 of this is somewhat diöerent, in all other respects, especially in the 

 structure of the skull and teeth, it so perfectly agrees with the first, 

 that I regard it as belonging to the same species ^). 



1) In Dec. 1886, Mr. de Vis, in: „Proc. Lin. Soc. New South 

 Wales", has given a report „On new or rare Yertebrates from the Herbert 

 River, Queensland". Aecording to the short reference to this report in 

 „Zoologischer Anzeiger" for 28*'» Febr. 188.5, p. 127, de Vis has pointed 

 out that „Inhabiting the mountain top scrubs of the Herbert Gorge, there 

 are two species of Pseiidockirus , to each of which indifferently the local 

 blacks apply the name „Mongan", and that Mr. Collett (P. Z. S. 1884, 



