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hairs slaty with buffy tips. Ears short, pale brown. Hands 

 and feet pale brownish with white digits. Tail proportionally 

 long - , less completely naked than usual, its minute hairs com- 

 paratively evident ; irregularly mottled pale brown and white 

 in the type, and in the paratype white for its whole length 

 below. 



Skull of normal proportions, in size and general build not 

 unlike that of U. gracilis, though the brain-case is more 

 swollen. Interorbital region narrow. Palatal foramina very 

 long for this genus, reaching practically to the level of the 

 front edge of m 1 . Hinder edge of palate level with the 

 middle of w 3 . Molars small, narrow. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 115 mm. ; tail 155 ; hind foot 2G ; 

 ear 18. 



Skull: greatest length 33; condylo-incisive length 31; 

 zygomatic breadth 16*4 ; nasals 12*5 ; interorbital breadth 4\S ; 

 breadth of brain-case 14 ; height from crown to alveolus of 

 m 2 8"6 ; palatilar length 14*6 ; palatal foramina 6'3 ; post- 

 foraminal palate G # 4; breadth of choanpe 2'5 ; upper molar 

 series 6'6. 



Hab. as above. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 20. 7. 26. 26. Original 

 number 10. Collected January 1920. » 



Although looking very like some of the smaller Papuan 

 species, this Ceram Uromys is readily distinguishable by its 

 long palatal foramina and elongated tail. U. oldensi's, the 

 only species found to the westward of Ceram, has wholly 

 white belly-hairs and a black tail ; but that also has compa- 

 ratively long palatal foramina. 



11. Phalanger orientalis, Pall. 



S . 8. Mt. Manusela. 5000'. 



$ . 36 (young). Teloeti Bay. 



Judging from accounts given to Messrs. Pratt by their 

 native hunters, it seems probable that a species of Dactylopsila 

 is also found in Ceram. 



12.' Iihyndiomeles prattorum, gen. et sp. n. 



S . 7. 21, 24 ; ? . 12, 17, 18, 25. Mt. Manusela. 6000'. 

 " Trapped in heavy jungle in limestone formation. 

 Country very precipitous. Native name ' Mabaya.' " 



