1884.] 



MARSUPIALS FROM aUEENSLAND. 



38o 



Hub. — Herbert Vale, Northern Qiieenslaiid ; legit Dr. Lumholtz, 

 1883. (Male and female, preserved in the University Museum, 

 Christiania.) 



Note. — Ph. herbertensis differs from Ph. viverrina, Ogilby 

 (hitherto not very fully described), by its small ears and its 

 brownish back. 



Fig 4. 



Pkalanc/ista herbertensis, 5 • 

 Side view of skull. Side view of lower jaw. 



3. Phalangista (Hemibelideus) lemuroides, sp. et subg. 

 nov. (Plate XXXI.) 



General characters. — Female. Dark brownish grey, lower surface 

 dirty yellow. Tail equally bushy to the tip, cylindrical. Ears 

 small, rounded. Snout short. Eyes small. — This subgenus (Henii- 

 belidens) forms evidently a transition stage between the true Phalan- 

 gers and the genus Petaurista, having the skull, but not the pata- 

 gium, of the latter, and the bushy cylindrical tail, but not the skull, 

 of the Phalanger subgenus Trichosiirus. 



Description. — Upper parts dark brownish grey with silky gloss, 

 grizzled with reddish brown on shoulders and ashy grey on lower back. 

 An ill- defined black line from the nape down the back. The root 

 of fur blackish-grey. Lower parts dirty yellowish grey, a clearer 

 grey on the throat and inner side of the feet. Head coloured like 

 the back, the face more interspersed with greyish hairs. Ears 

 short, naked on inner surface ; length from their anterior base 13 

 millim. Snout remarkably short and slender, the eyes small ; 

 distance from the eye to the tip of the nose 20 millim. The naked 

 part of the nose small, blackish. Claws light grey. Tail bushy to 

 the tip, the hairs of moderate length, black, lower side more greyish 



