JULY 12, 1909 Vou. IV, Ppp. 43-46 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW MARSUPIAL FROM NETHERLANDS’ 
NEW GUINEA. 
BY GLOVER M. ALLEN AND THOMAS BARBOUR. 
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DurinG a collecting trip among various islands of the Dutch 
East Indies and New Guinea in 1906 and 1907, the junior author 
obtained a considerable number of interesting mammals. These 
have been given to the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts. Among them is the skin, accompanied by a 
nearly perfect skull, of a small marsupial that appears to represent 
a new genus of the polyprotodont family Peramelide. 
The village whence it came lies in northern Papua, quite near the 
entrance to the Great Geelvyink Bay and opposite the Jobi Straits. 
SUILLOMELES genus novum. 
External appearance much like that of a very small Perameles; first 
and fifth digits of the manus clawless, the second, third and fourth with 
strong claws; first digit of the pes small and clawless, the second and third 
united as far as the bases of the claws, fourth and fifth digits large and 
armed with strong claws; soles naked, their surface finely granulated. 
