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wiiite or white and brown ; limbs brown, with the fingers 

 nearly naked. Muzzle very long and slender, with the top and 

 sides of the nose naked. Ears longer and narrower than in 

 other members of the group, not quite reaching the eyes when 

 turned forwards, and with rounded tips. Soles of hind feet 

 naked and coarsely granulated, with indistinct rudimental 

 pads at the bases of the fourth and fifth toes. Tail long, 

 cylindrical, and uniformly clothed with short fine black hairs. 

 Eight teats. 



Distribntion. — New Guinea. 



VI. p.roaubent's bandicoot, perameles broadbenti. 

 rcj-anieks broadbenti^ Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. South 



Wales, vol. iii., p. 402 (1878) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. 



Brit. Mus., p. 240 (1888). 

 Founded upon a very large adult male specimen which 

 is only provisionally admitted by the author of the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Marsupials as specifically distinct from 

 the preceding ; its chief claim to distinction being based on 

 the peculiar character of the tail, which is stated to differ from 

 that of all other members of the family in being partially pre- 

 hensile. This appendage is lons^, scaly above, and covered 

 below with flattish transverse scaly tubercles ; its colour being 

 blackish for about two-thirds of its length, and thence fawn- 

 coloured to the tip, with a sparse clothing of short hair. The 

 great size of the type specimen may be merely due to sex and 

 age. 



Distribution. — South-eastern New Guinea. 



VIT. DORIA'S bandicoot. PERAMELES DOREYANA. 



Peranicks doreyana, Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage Astrolabe, 

 Zool., vol. i., p. TOO (1830); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. 

 Mus., p. 236 (188S). 



