180 PHALANSEElDiE. 



Dimensions. 



Type (skin in spirit). 

 Adult. 



Head and body (c.) 340 



Tail 316 



Hind foot 48 



Ear 17-2 



Skull, seep. 185. 



Hub. N.W. New Guinea (Arfak district). 

 -Type iu the Museo Civico, Genoa. 



i Ad. sk. I , Mori, Arfak Mts., New Guinea. A. A. Bruijn. 



"■ ISkuU. f ^■ 

 b. Ad. sk. Prafl, Hatam, Arfak Mts. A. A. Bruijn. 



I Ad. sk. I New Guinea. Purchased. 



"• i Skull. [ 



8. FseudocMrus scMegeli. 

 Pseudochirus schlegeli, Jent. Notes Leyd. Mus. vi. p. 110 (1884) ; 

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



SCHLE&Bl's PHALAiraEE. 



Size comparatively small. General colour dull silvery grey. Fur 

 thick and woolly. Face grey, like the back, not paler as in the allied 

 species ; its centre without any trace of a darker longitudinal line. 

 Ears small and rounded, their backs thickly hairy, nearly black, ex- 

 cept their edges which are rufous ; a patch round their bases pale yel- 

 lowish white, with an indistinct darker mark posterior to it. Back 

 grey, with a faint rufous tinge ; a very indistinct darker mark running 

 along its centre. Chin, chest, and belly pale yellow, with a tinge of 

 rufous, the bases of the hairs slate-coloured. Arms and legs like 

 back ; hands rather paler basally, but the fingers black ; feet nearly 

 white. Tail evenly tapering, short-haired terminally, its colour 

 basally like that of the back, but without the rufous tinge ; thinly 

 hairy below to the end (except about 4 millim. at the extreme tip, 

 where it is naked all round), and therefore differing in this respect 

 from that of every other member of this genus. 



Skull rather more heavily built than in the two allied specieS' 

 next following, but still markedly lighter and more delicate than 

 in any of the previous species. Nasals but little expanded behind. 

 Interorbital space narrow, parallel-sided, concave above, its edges 

 ridged, but faintly inflated and rounded anteriorly ; no trace of 

 postorbital processes. General frontal outline evenly convex above. 

 Palate rather imperfect behind, ending behind opposite the ppsterior 

 edge of m." Bullse large and transparent. 



Teeth. Upper i.' long and strong, i.^ smaller than i.', the crown of 

 the latter about 1"8 millim. in horizontal length. Canine about as 

 long vertically as i.^ P.' touching p.", small and conical ; p.' and p.* 

 oval, the latter about twice the size in section of the former. Molars 

 larger and heavier than in Ps. forhesi and canescens, though smaller 



