﻿LONG-SNOUTED PHALANCJERS. II9 



habits ; but an anonymous writer states that he has seen a 

 family of young ones taken out of a hollow tree. 



II. PAPUAN PIGMY FLYING PHALANGER. ACR0P.A1E3 

 PULCHELLUS. 



Acrobates pulchellu-s, Rothschild, Proc Zool. Soc, 1892, p. 

 546- 



Characters. — According to its describer, this species differs 

 from the last in its more purplish-brown colour, its broadtr 

 and more robust head, much shorter tail, and comparatively 

 smaller body. The under-parts are also much whiter, and the 

 whole of the throat and sides of the lower jaw are pure white, 

 instead of yellowish-grey. Around the eyes is a blackish-brown 

 patch extending nearly to the nose, while the ears are rather 

 smaller than in A. pygmceus. The length of the tail is 2^ 

 inches against 33 in the latter. 



DistriTjution. — One of the small islands of Northern Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



LONG-SNOUTED PHALANGERS. GENUS TARSIPES. 



Tarsipes^ Gervais and Verreaux, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1842, p. r. 



The last group of the Phalangers represented only by 

 a single small species, differs so markedly from all the rest 

 that it constitutes a sub-family— the Tarsipedince — by itself; 

 its characters being as follows : Tail long ; muzzle very long 

 and slender ; tongue extensile ; intestine without a blind ap- 

 pendage or csecum ; cheek-teeth minute and rudimental. 



The foregoing characters serve to distinguish the group as a 

 sub-family, and the following may be taken as ctiaracterising the 



