Species of the Genus Dactylopsila. 123 



members of this genus there is a certain amount of variation 

 in the details of the colour-pattern. Cheeks and upper lips 

 varying, either white in continuation of the white belly- 

 colour, or black owing to the broadening downwards of tlie 

 lateral dark facial stripe. Chin and interramia black, not 

 divided mesial ly by a light line. Fore limbs with the dark 

 band that runs down from the lateral dorsal line continued 

 on to and including the whole of the hands, though there 

 may be a few light hairs near the tips of the fingers. Hind 

 feet similarly black, except that the tine hairs of the hallux 

 are generally light. Tail with or without a white tip. 



Skull apparently quite like that of D. trivirgata, except 

 that the muzzle is rather broader and stronger, not so sharply 

 and narrowly pointed. 



Dimensions of the type (taken from skin) : — 



Head and body 285 mm. ; tail 3.30 ; hind foot 4.5. 



Skull : upper length 60 ; basal length 54 ; greatest 

 breadth 41 ; three anterior molariform teeth 8*9. 



Hah. South-eastern British New Guinea. Type from 

 Kokoda, Mambare li., alt. 1000'. Others from Tamata, 

 Mambare R. {Stalker) ; Albert Edward Ranges, Central 

 B. N. (Jr. (Euhu), and Owgarra, Angabuiiga R. (.1/ee/c). 



Ti/pe. Old female. B.M. no. 7.2.1.14. Collected 12th 

 July, 190G, and presented by C A. W. Monckton, Esq. 

 Seven specimens examined. 



Dactylopsila picata. 



Most like D. melampus in general characters and skull, 

 but the dark patch on the chin and interramia is smaller, and 

 the colour of the hands and feet is not so completely black. 

 On the fore limb the dark band which runs down its front 

 narrows abruptly on the upper side of the wrist, so as to 

 leave two white patches on each side of it, then broadens 

 again so as to cover the metacarpal region, and then comes 

 to an end, leaving the uj)per side of the fingers inconspicu- 

 ously whitish. On the hind limb a white baud passes across 

 the u|)per side of the tarsus, separating the block of the leg 

 from tiiat of the metatarsals, the latter dark patch, however, 

 continuing on to the upper surface of the toes, the hallux 

 reuuiining, as usual, white. Tail white-tipped in both 

 examples. 



Skull apparently as in D. melampus, or the tooth-row a 

 little longer. 



Dimensions of the type (measured in skin) : — 



Head and body 275 mm. ; tail 320 ; hind foot 44. 



