CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 11 
most-careful examination of the space between’the front upper cut- 
ting teeth, that I could find any indication of the front pair of cut- 
ting teeth found in the allied genus Antechinus. 
This genus is evidently allied to the genus Antechinus of Australia; 
but it is known at once by its external form, which is just that of a 
small Indian Herpestes or Ichneumon, having like that genus a de- 
pressed tail with long spreading hair, broad and depressed at the 
‘base, tapering to an acute tip which bears a pencil of hairs. 
Myorctis WALLACII. 
Myoictis Wallacii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, t. 64. 
Rusty-brown, with interspersed black longer hairs ; head redder ; 
throat, chest and belly pale reddish ; side of the neck at the base of 
the ears bright reddish ; ears, aud the greater part of the tail bright 
red-brown ; tip of the tail black. 
Had, Aru Island (Wallace). 
Male. ArulIsland. — 
“In houses as destructive as rats to everything eatable. - 
6- I1—I 2—2 2—2 
“Teeth 34 :—Inc. 6? C. == Prem. aan M. sae a “allace. 
' DactTyLopsiLa. 
- Dacetylopsila, J. BE. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, 
‘Tail elongate, slender, depressed, densely clothed with fur, with 
the exception of the under side near the tip, which is bald and cal- 
lous, the end rather bushy. Ears elongate, rounded, bald, except 
at the outer sides of the base. Pupil round? The fore-feet elon- 
gate; toes very slender, compressed, very unequal in length, quite 
free; the outer and third or middle toe nearly equal, the second 
or ring-finger much the longest, the fourth and fifth short, the fifth 
or innermost the shortest. The hind-feet slender, toes compressed, 
‘the two outer toes elongate, nearly equal, the two inner about half , 
the length and united. 
