294 Occurrence of Acantlioglossus in British New Guinea. 



Museum, no less than ten skins, divided by him into three 

 subspecies. 



It has therefore been witli great interest that 1 have 

 examined a fine example of the genus obtained in British 

 New Guinea by Capt. F. R. Barton, and presented by him 

 to the National Museum. It was brought in to him at 

 Port Moresby by natives, who had obtained it on Mount 

 Victoria, in the Albert Edward range, at an altitude of about 

 8000 feet. 



A comparison of this specimen with those in the British 

 and Tring Museums shows, as might be expected, a certain 

 number of differences, of very much the same character as 

 those that distinguish the three Dutch New Guinea sub- 

 species from each other, as described by Mr. RothschiM. 



I therefore propose to form for it a fourth subspecies, and 

 to name it, in honour of its donor, 



Acantlioglossus Bruijnii Bartoni, subsp. n. 



Fur long and thick, entirely hiding the spines over the 

 whole of the dorsal area, tliese being visible only on the 

 nape, sides of neck, flanks, back of rump, and caudal region. 

 Limbs densely hairy. No spines on belly. General colour 

 black (not brown) throughout, the head not lighter than the 

 body, and the under surface practically as dark as the upper. 

 The only parts not black are the hands and feet, which are 

 brown, grizzled with whitish. The bases of the hairs of the 

 head are also rather lighter than the tips. Spines thin, short 

 (rarely attaining 30 mm. in length), white, very different to 

 the long, thick, blackish spines of A. B. nigroacuJeatus. 



Skull with rather shorter and more curved beak than that 

 of the specimen measured in the * Catalogue of Marsupials : 

 Monotremes ' ; condyloid vacuities present ; palatal foramina 

 unusually long. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Length of head and body 560 mm. 



Skull: basal length 3 75; greatest breadth 59; palate 

 length 161 ; anterior palatine foramina 49. 



Hah. Mount Victoria, British New Guinea. Alt. 8000'. 



Type. Old female. B.M. no. 7. 7. 17. 5. Collected and 

 presented by Capt. F. R. Barton. 



