1886.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 549 
In the upper jaw the first incisor is short, and almost imper- 
ceptibly larger than the other incisors. Canine long and curved. 
The premolars form an almost unbroken series with the canine and 
first molar. First premolar very small, scarcely higher than fourth 
incisor; second a little larger; third premolar the largest, the 
middle cusp being as high as the molars. The molars are rather 
feeble, with relatively low crowns and blunt cusps; last molar very 
narrow. 
In the lower jaw the canine is a little shorter than that in the 
upper. Fourth molar only alittle smaller than third. Incisors and 
premolars as in upper jaw. 
Compared with Ph. minima the brain-case is higher, but narrower, 
and the arcus zygomaticus longer. Ph. apicalis has larger bulle 
ossee, but shorter foramina incisiva; the third premolar in that 
species is almost rudimentary, and the second premolar larger than 
the two other premolars together. In both these species the crests 
on the brain-case are scarcely developed, and the postorbital pro- 
cesses wanting. 
Hab. Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland ; one specimen, a full- 
grown male, collected by Dr. Lumholtz, January 1883, is preserved 
in the Zoological Museum at Christiana. 
The specimen was dug out from a hole in the ground, and its 
habits seemed not to be arboreal’. 
Christiania, 15th November, 1886. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE LX. 
Fig. 1. Phascologale virginia, natural size. 
2. Skull, natural size. 
3. Canines and premolars, three times natural size. 
December 21, 1886. 
Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of November 1886 :— 
‘Che tctal number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of November was 166, of which 64 were by 
presentation, 22 by purchase, 16 by birth, 4 were received in ex- 
change, and 60 on deposit. The total number of departures during 
the same period, by death and removals, was 107. 
1 My friend, Mr. Oldfield Thomas, informs me, on the authority of M. Huet, 
of Paris, that the original type of this species, the locality of which was un- 
known, appears to have been lost; and as the animal has been overlooked ever 
since its first description, I have thought it worth while to figure and redescribe 
it from the beautiful specimen obtained in Queensland by Dr. Lumholtz. 
