JMiimmals from Bali and }fijsol. 507 



Skull : greatest length 70 ; coiulylo-incisive length 01 ; 

 zygomatic bieatUh 43*0 ; upper tootli-.series 13'7. 



Ilab. Bali. Type troin Tjetoekainbawang ; coast-level. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 13. 3.6. lb. Original num- 

 ber 12. CulIecteJ 31st March, 1911. 



Should the palo colour of the fore back, nearly matching 

 the crown, be not due entirely to bleaciiitig (a!.d the hairs 

 mostly have their points i)crfect, showing tliat they are not 

 very worn), this Bali ilatuta is even more distinct from the 

 Javan one than I am now able positively to state. But in 

 any case it is distinguishable by the absence of the prominent 

 blackening of the shoulders and by the reduction in length of 

 the yellow ends to the tail-hairs. In working it out, I have 

 been able to examine more than a score of excellent specimens 

 of E. licolor, presented to the Museum by Mr. W. E. Balston ; 

 these covering the time of year at which the Bali specimen 

 was killed. 



Dorcopsis mysolice, sp. n. 

 Dorcopsis mulleri, Tlios. Cat. Mars. B. M. p. 87 * (1888), nee Schlegel 



Like D. veterunij Less.t, in all essential respects, but 

 markedly smaller, the skull of an old male only 121 mm. in 

 greatest length, as compared with 145 mm. in the specimen 

 of the New Guinea form described by Schlegel. 



Other dimensions and details as in the Catalogue (/. c). 



Type. Old male. B.M. no. 61. 12. 11. 22. Collected by 

 Dr. A. R. Wallace. Specimen b of the Catalogue. 



A comparison of Sclilegel's figures and dimensions of the 

 Dorcojysis veterum of the mainland of New Guinea with 

 Wallace''s and Mr. Stresemann's examples of the Mysol form 

 shows that the latter is so much smaller than the former as 

 to constitute a distinct insular species. A detailed description 

 of it has already been given in the ' Catalogue of Marsupials,' 

 and need not be repeated here. 



Mr. Stresemann's collection contains a skull of this 

 kangaroo from Mysol, and in determining it my attention has 

 been drawn to the above facts. 



* Exclusive of the synonymy, the extemiil dimensions of the male, and 

 of specimen a. 



t According to modern ideas on nomenclature, there would seem to 

 be no justification for the supersession of veterum in favour of Schlegel's 

 name miilleri. However erroneous I^esson's reasons were for selecting 

 the name veterum, his description was based on a living specimen obtained 

 at Dorey, N.W. New Guinea, and his name must stand, with that place 

 as type" locality. Schlegel's examples of " Dorcopsis viillieri" were 

 collected at Lobo Bay. 



