178 PHAIANGEEID*. 



figures, and from a cast of the typical skull which Dr. CoUett kindly 

 permitted me to have prepared : — 



Fur' soft, close, and thick. General colour grizzled yellowish 

 green. Face grey, passing into greenish yellow on the crown. 

 Eye with distinct crescentic pale yellow spots above and below it. 

 Ears very short, rounded, hairy, their posterior edges and a large 

 spot beneath their bases prominently white. Nape with a distinct 

 black central line passing down it on to the back. Back greenish 

 yellow, with two whitish lines margining the black central one, and 

 these again with two indistinct darker ones outside them. Chin 

 greyish white, chest and belly pure white, the line of demarcation 

 rather sharply marked. Limbs like back, but rather greyer. Tail 

 thick basaUy, rapidly tapering ; its basal two thirds coloured like 

 the back, its tip white. Naked part beneath tip less than half the 

 length of the tail. 



Skull and teeth essentially the same as those of Ps. dlbertisi, and 

 therefore very different from those of any of the previous species. 

 The teeth, however, are rather larger and stouter than in the 

 Papuan animal (see skuU dimensions, p. 185), and the buUse 

 appear to be less swollen. 



Dimensions. 



(J- 



Type (skin). 



Adult. 



Head and body (c.) 350 



Tail 330 



Ear (" measured along the 



inner margin ") 18 



Skull, see p. 185. 



ffah. Pentral Queensland (Herbert Eiver district). 

 Tj/pe in the Christiania Museum. 



7. PseudocMrus all)ertisi. 



Phalangista (Pseudochirus) albertisi, Peters, Ann. Mm. Oenov. vi. 



p. 303 (1874) ; id. SfDoria, op. cit. xvi. p. 674, pi. viii. fig. 2, pi. ix. 



%. 2 (skull), and pi. xi. (animal) (1881). 

 Pseudochirus albertisi, Jent. Notes Zeyd. Mus. vi. p. 109 (1884) ; id. 



Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 315 (1887). 



D'Albektis's Phaianoee. 



Form stout and clumsy. Fur very long, soft and thick. General 

 colour snining coppery brown. Face grizzled greyish brown, no 

 lighter markings either above or below eye, or behind or below ear. 

 Whiskers numerous, long- and coarse, black ; whisker-like bristles 

 also growing from tufts placed one just above each eye, and another 

 on the side of the cheek behind and below the posterior oanthus. 

 Ears short and rounded, their substance thick and fleshy ; with three 



