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Hind/ring : whitish, washed with green ; a broail light and dark green shade 

 along hindmargiu, the fringe being pale green ; inner margin with a yellowish green 

 tinge. 



Underside whitish, green-tinged, with the markings showing thmngh; luar- 

 ginal area greener, blackish green towards apex of forewing ; hindwiug more 

 plainly mottled with green, and with a large blackish cell-spot and dark marginal 

 spots preceded by whitish ones. 



Head and thorax green, speckled with pale ; terminal segment of palpi 

 dark green ; abdomen above ochreons, covered with olive-green scales, below deep 

 green; all the legs green, pale-spotted; fore- and midtibiae and tarsi dark fuscous ; 

 antennae fuscons. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 ?. 



This is another species standing quite by itself. 



PRELIMINARY DIAGNOSIS OF A NEW GENUS AND 

 SPECIES OF KANGAROO. 



BY THE HON. W. ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 

 Dendrodorcopsis gen. nov. 

 This genus is closely allied to both Dorcopsis and Dendrolagus, and in many 

 respects stands intermediate. It differs from both in its much more hairy rhinarinm 

 and very short claw to mid<lle toe of hind-foot, which is concealed by the hair of the 

 foot above and only exceeds the pad of the toe in length by G millimeters. The 

 naked pad of hind-foot large, strongly rugose and extending up the back of hind- 

 legs as in f)e/if/rolat/its. Hind-leg much longer than fore-leg, as in Dorcopsis. 

 Tail considerably shorter than body, covered with short, flat, and straight hair as in 

 Macropics. Mr. Oldfield Thomas has examined the skull of this curious new 

 kangaroo, and finds that its essential generic characters (especially the absence of 

 canine teeth) do not differ from those of true Macropiis. This makes the genus 

 much more interesting, as the external generic characters show almost conclusively 

 that it is arboreal as well as rock-haunting in its habits, which facts would account 

 for its modified outward resemblance to the Philanders and Tree-kangaroos, while 

 it nevertheless retains the essential macrojiiue cranial characters. 



Dendrodorcopsis woodwardi spec. nov. 



Size larger than Dcndrolagua bennctti, ears long and very hairy. Colour 

 above and below sooty brownish black, fore-legs and lower half of hind-limbs and 

 tail deep black. Total length 1.530 mm. Tail 700 mm ; head and body 830 mm. ; 

 hind-foot 250 mm. ; ear SO mm. 



Hab. Granite Ranges, Head of South Alligator River (Type No. 170—1046, 

 17, V. 1903). 



Collected by J. T. Tunney. 



