LONG-SNOUTED PHALANGERS. 119g 
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. ACROBATES 
PULCHELLUS, 
Acrobates pulchellus, 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 broader 
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 4. pygma@us. ‘The length of the tail is 24 
inches against 34 in the latter. 
Distribution—One of the small islands of Northern Dutch 
New Guinea. 
LONG-SNOUTED PHALANGERS. GENUS TARSIPES. 
Tarsipes, Gervais and Verreaux, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1842, p. 1. 
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 Zarsipedine—by itself; 
its characters being as follows: Tail long; muzzle very long 
and slender; tongue extensile; intestine without a blind ap- 
pendage or cecum ; cheek-teeth minute and rudimental. 
The foregoing characters serve to distinguish the group as a 
sub-family, and the following may be taken as characterising the 
