Mtimiiidl.s froin (he Austrci/itiit litujlon. .">29 



pale l)iown, the (li;;its liuliter. Tail 1oii<;(M- tlian in the other 

 allied spi'cies, finely scaled (lo riiig.s to the cin.j, dark brov/ii 

 above and helow to the tip. 



Skull delicately built, ratlKU- narrow, it-s intcrorbital ed;re3 

 with ji fairly distinct beading--. Anteorbitiil [>hite slightly 

 jirojected forward. BuUie small. 



Dimensions ot the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body about 140 mm.; tail 17') ; hind foot 27 ; 

 car 1(). 



Skull: fijreateat length o3'8 ; basilar length 27 5; greate-;t 

 breadth 17*2; length of nasals 11; intcrorbital breadth 5; 

 breadth of brain-case 14; height of muzzle behind incisors CrA ; 

 palatilar length 14'8 ; diastema 9'5 ; palatal foramina 4*4 X 2 ; 

 length of upj)er molar series 6*2. 



JIdh. Owgarra, Angabunga R., S.E. British New Guinea. 



Type. Adult female. R.M. no. 5. 11. 28. 15. Collected 

 loth November, 1904, by Mr. A. S. Meek. Two specimens. 



This species is readily distinguishable from its nearest ally, 

 U. StaUceri, Thos.*, with which it agrees in colour, by its 

 longer tail and markedly narrower intcrorbital region. 



Pneudochirus avarus, sp. n. 



Very like Ps. canescenHy but without the dark ear-patch. 



Fur close and fine ; hairs of buck 10-11 mm. in length. 

 General colour of body above grey (near " smoke-grey "), the 

 middle line darker and more brownish. Under surface 

 oehraceous buff, not sharply defined laterally. Head tawny 

 ochraceous, duller above, richest on the cheeks, a narrow 

 sharply defined blackish frontal line present. Ears nuked 

 internally, well-furred but not tufted externally, their backs 

 tawny, not blackened as in Ps. canescens, and with no 

 darkening round their bases. Forearms and hands, feet and 

 inner sides of legs oehraceous. Tail greyish basally, getting 

 rather more brownish terminally, but not blackening at the 

 lip; under surface oehraceous along the middle line from the 

 basal half; tip naked below for about two inches. 



►Skull apparently as in Ps. canescens, the ridges strongly 

 marked. Molars slightly smaller than in the type of 

 Ps. canescens gyrator. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 250 mm. ; tail 210 ; hind foot (wet) 20 ; 

 ear (wet) 14. 



Skull: occipital ridge to tip of nasals 49; zygomatic 

 breadth 29'5 ; nasals 17x(J"G; intcrorbital breadth 72; 



♦ Ann. & yUvr, Nat. Hi^t. (7j xiv. p. L'OJ (I'JOJ). 



