80 Mr. C. T. Regan on Rala iindulata, Lacep.^ and 



A Kalgurli specimen obtained by Mr. Sliortridge is 

 intermediate as regards the upper colour^ but its lower 

 surface is brown as usual. 



Phascogale murex, sp. n. 



Allied to Ph. longicaudata, but much larger. 



Size approachiug that of the larger species of the genus. 

 Fur short, close and crisp; hairs of back about 5-5'5 mm. 

 in length. General colour above near " Prout's brown/^ 

 becoming warmer posteriorly nearly to '^ burnt umber." 

 Head and sides dark mouse-grey. Under surface whitish, 

 the bases of the hairs brown. Limbs dark mouse-colour 

 externally, dull whitish on their inner surfaces ; hands and 

 feet pale brown. Tail with its basal inch clothed with fur 

 like the back, the remainder short-haired, brown above and 

 below. 



Skull as in Ph. longicaudata, but larger throughout. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the skin) : — 



Head and body ]97 mm. ; tail 167 ; hind foot 35. 



Skull: greatest breadth 24; nasals 16'5x4*6; inter- 

 temporal breadth 7*5 ; palatal length 26 ; breadth between 

 outer corners of m^ 14'6 ; combined length of three anterior 

 molariform teeth 7"9. 



Hab. Sattelberg, German New Guinea. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 12. 2. 4. 1. Collected by 

 Herr O. Fritsche. Presented by .the Hon. N. Charles 

 Rothschild. 



This fine Phascogale is readily distinguishable by its 

 greater size from its only near ally Ph. longicaudata, Schleg., 

 a native of the Aru Islands. 



VI. — Raia undulata, Lacep.^ and its Distribution on the 

 British Coasts. By C. Tate Regan, M.A. 



(Publislied by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



[Plate I.] 



In 1907 (Annals, (7) xx. p. 403) I placed on record the 

 occurrence on the Cornish coast of Raia undulata, Lacep., a 

 species not generally regarded as belonging to the British 

 fauna, although it was known to Couch, who described 

 it as a variety of R. microcellata. The Cornish specimen, 

 presented by the late Mr. Harcourt Powell in 1880, was the 



