44 ALLEN AND BARBOUR— A NEW MARSUPIAL ee peo 
Skull smooth and rounded, with a slightly elongate, narrow rostrum. 
Dental formula as in the Papuan genus Echymipera, but the premolars 
differ remarkably in that the third upper and lower premolars (p*, p,) 
are minute and practically functionless instead of being larger than the 
anterior two premolars, or equalling them. 
The type of the genus is the species represented by this specimen, which 
may be known as 
Suillomeles hispida species nova. 
Type,— skin and skull, no. 7006, Museum of Comparative Zodélogy, from 
Manokwari, Doreh Bay, Dutch New Guinea, collected February 23, 1907, 
by Thomas Barbour. 
General characters.— Size small; tail short; pelage hispid; skull light, 
rounded, with two pairs of palatal vacuities; audital bulle small, somewhat 
hemispherical, but apparently complete. Dentition as above character- 
ized. 
Form.— In general proportions this species is much like a very small 
Bandicoot, Isoodon obesula. The body is stout, the head rather large, 
nearly one half the length of the body in the dry skin; the limbs are short 
and strong, larger digits armed with strong claws. The ears are oval. 
round-tipped, apparently not reaching beyond the eye when laid forward, 
The naked rhinarium extends 8 mm. back from the tip of the snout, and 
shows a slight median groove distally. 
The entire pelage is stiff and spiny, with numerous somewhat coarser 
and flattened hairs on the dorsal surface. Both surfaces of the ears and 
the tail are thinly covered with minute stiff hairs, and the upper sides of 
the feet are clothed with shorter hair than the body. 
Color.— Mid-dorsal area shining black, less intense on the head, and 
slightly grizzled with tawny (cf. Ridgway’s ‘Nomenclature of Colors’). 
Towards the sides of the neck and body the tawny becomes increasingly 
more prominent, and the black is reduced, until the sides are clear, rich 
tawny. The hairs are dark at their bases, however. The clear tawny 
of the sides shades rather abruptly into the color of the under parts, which 
is a bright buff, slightly yellower than Ridgway’s ‘ buff.’ This color extends 
from the chin to the anus and includes the inner sides of the thighs and 
both surfaces of the fore feet. The dorsal surface of the pes is nearly 
ochraceous buff. The minute hairs of the tail and ears are blackish. 
Skull and teeth The skull (PI. II, figs. 1-3) appears to be that of an 
adult, though not old, animal. The occipital region unfortunately is in- 
complete, and the two posterior upper molars of each side have become 
broken away and lost. In general, the skull resembles in outline that of 
the related genera Isoodon, Perameles, Echymipera, but the zygomata are 
very compressed instead of conspicuously bowing outward. The antorbital 
