144 tHAtAHaEElD*. 



Arms and legs grey ; hands and feet dull fawn. Tail muck longer 

 than the head and body, very thin, furry like the body for its basal 

 half-inch ; the remainder short-haired as usual. 



Skull and dentition much as in D. nana, except that there are 

 four molars both above and below ; m.* minute, triangular. 



Dimensions. 



?. 



Type (stuffed). 



Adult. 



millim. 



Head and body (c.VlOO 



Tail 144 



Hind foot 16 



Ear 10-5 



SkuU, see p. 148. 



Hal. N.W. New Guinea (Mt. Arfak). 

 Type in the Paris Museum. 



3. Dromicia nana. 



Phalangista nana, Desm. N. Diet. d'H. N. (2) xxv. p. 477 (1817) ; 



id. Mamm. i. p. 268 (1820) ; F. Cuv. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. p. 415 



(1826); Temm. Mon. Mamm.i.^. 9 (1827); Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. 



K. V. p. 198 (1827) ; Leu. Mon. Mamm. p. 218 (1827) ; id. Diet. 



Class. d'S. N. xiii. p. 334 (182§) ; J. B. Fisch. 8yn. Mamm. 



p. 276 (1829) ; Less. H. N. Mam,m. (Compl. Buff.) iv. p. 466 



(1830) ; Waterh. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. S. p. 68 (1838) ; Waterh. 



Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. xi. p. 279, pi. xxvi. (animal) (1841) ; 



Less. N. Tabl. JR. A., Mamm. p. 188 (1842) ; Sohinst, 8yn. Mamm. 



i. p. 530 (1844) ; Gieb. Saug. p. 699 (1859) ; GuUiver, P. Z. 8. 



1875, p. 491. 

 Phalangista gliriformis, Bell, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 121, pis. xiii. & 



xiv. (animal, feet, &c.) (1828) ; J. B. Fiseh. Syn. Mamm. p. 383 



(1829) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. (Compl. Buff.) iv. p. 467 (1830) ; id. N. 



Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 188 (1842) ; Wagn. Sckr. Sdug. Supp. iii. 



p. 82 (1843), V. p. 276 (1855) ; Owen, Odontogr. Atl. pi. c. fig. 3 



(skull) (1845). 

 Dromicia nana, Crray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 (1841) ; id. lAst 



Mamm. B. M. p. 85 (1848) ; Gerv. H. N. Mamm. ii. p. 275 



(1855) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 121 (1862). 

 Dromicia gliriformis, Chray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 85 (1843) ; Gould, 



Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xxix. (animal) (1845) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 



Mamm. B. M. p. 120 (1862) ; Krefft, Notes Faun. Tasm. p. 4 



(1868) ; id. Mamm. Austr. text to pi. vii. p. 3 (1871). 

 Phalangista (Dromicia) nana, Waterh, N. H. Mamm. i. p. 309 (1846) ; 



Gunn, P. Roy. Soc. Tasm. ii. p. 85 (1852). 

 Dromicia unicolor, Krefft, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 49; Gould, Mamm, 



Austr. (Introd.) i. p. xxvi (1863); Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. 



Mtts. p. 42 (1864). 



Common DoEMOtrsB-PHAiANaEB. 



Si2e rather smaller than in D. caudata. Form thicker and 

 clumsier than in the other species. Fur thick and soft, rather 



