92 MACKOPODlDil!. 



3. Dorcopsis macleayi. 



Dorcopsis macleayi, MiM.-Macl. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. x. p. 149, 

 pi. XX. flgs. 5-9 (animal, skull, and teeth) (1885). 



Smaller than D. mulleri and B. luctuosa. Fur on nape of neck 

 presenting two centresof irradiation— one on the occiput, whence the' 

 hairs are directed haeJctvards, and the other on the withers, in front 

 of which the hairs are directed forwards as in the other species, the 

 opposed hairs meeting about halfway down the neck. General 

 colour brownish grey, a little lighter on the ventral side. Tip of 

 tail nearly bare, white. 



Skull smaller, shorter, and broader than in the other species. 

 Nasals slightly expanded behind, their posterior edge sinuous. In- 

 terorbital space broad, with strongly ridged overhanging edges, 

 converging backwards. 



Teeth. Incisors very small and Hght, not touching each other. 

 Canines short and slender. P.* broad, evenly ov&l, far shorter than 

 usual, and much resembling the deciduous p.' of B. luctuosa. 



(skin). 



millim. 



Head and body 490 



Tan 320 



Hind foot (? with claws) 115 



Ear (" measured behind ")...: 30 



Skull, see last page. 



Hab. SoTjth coast of New Guinea. 



Type in the Macleay Museum, Sydney. 



The above particulars are taken from the original description and 

 figures, and the dimensions of the skull given in the table are measured 

 directly from these figures, so that the artist must be held respon- 

 sible for their accuracy. The species as described is in many ways 

 intermediate between Dorcopsis and Macropus, so that it seems just 

 possible that the type specimen may be a hybrid between B. luctuosa 

 and Maeropiu hrowni, both of which occur in Southern New Guinea. 

 Pending, however, the arrival of further material bearing on this 

 suggestion, I provisionally retain B. madeayi as a somewhat doubt- 

 ful species of the genus to which its describer referred it. 



6. DENDROLAGUS. 



Type. 

 Dendrolagus, Schleg. Sf Miill. Verh. Nat. Oes. Ned. 

 p. 138 (1839-44) d. ursinus. 



General build of the ordinary mammalian proportions, not macro- 

 podiform at all. Rhinarium (PI. XI. fig. 8) broad, only partly 

 naked, the hairs growing downwards on to i,he upper part of the 

 nasal septum, but these hairs and those on the top of the muzzle 



