1884.] 



MARSUPIALS IROM QUEENSLAND. 



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Hah. Northern Queensland ; legit Dr. Lumholtz 1883. (Female 

 and young, preserved in the University Museuii;, Christiania.) 



Note. — The young specimen, only half grown, is in every respect 

 similar to the full-grown female except in size. 



Fig. 6. 



Fhalangkta lemurotdes, $ . 

 Side view of skull. Side view of lower jaw. 



4. Dendrolagus lumholtzi, sp. nov. (Plate XXXII.) 



General characters. — Yellowish grey, the back grizzled with 

 blackish ; snout, ears, fingers, toes, and occiput black ; the tail black 

 on lower surface. 



Description.- — Upper parts grey; on the back the hairs are 

 blackish with pale bases and points, giving these parts a grizzly hue. 

 On the vertex of the back the hairs are almost uniformly black, 

 extending as a broad stripe upwards, and covering the occiput and 

 the ears on their outer surface. The lower back is clearer yellowish 

 grey, the blackish hairs being somewhat scarcer, but forming an 

 indistinct dark patch on the root of the tail. Lower parts pale 

 yellowish, deeper on the flanks ; the throat whitish. Limbs coloured 

 on upper surface like the back ; on the metacarpus and metatarsus 

 rusty red, with numerous interspersed black liairs. Fingers and 

 toes' deep black. Claws black. Head : the snout, chin, and lower 

 jaw black ; the forehead grey, in some- specimens more blackish or 

 almost black. Tail pale yeliowish grey above, with numerous black 

 hairs ; lower surfiice black or blackish ; the tip in some specimens 

 whitish. Ears short, covered with moderately long hairs; external 

 surface black, inner pale yellow. 



Skull. — The skull and dentition seem not to differ in any essential 

 way from that of the Papuan Dendrolagi. 



Length of the body about TOO niiilim., of the tail about GSO 

 miliim. ; but the species is said to obtain a much greater size. 



Hub. Herbert Yale, Northern Queensland ; legit Dr. Lumholtz, 



