9.,psEtrD0CHiKrs. 181 



than in any of the previous spepies. Diastema between lower i/ 

 and p/ long, with (in the type) a single intermediate tooth (pro- 

 bably i.^) present on each side. ' 



Dimensions. 



Type (stuffed). 

 Adult, 

 millim. 



Head and body 260 



Tail : 250 



Hind foot 30 



Ear 13 



SkuU, see p. 185. 



Hah. N.W. New Guinea (Ari'ak Mountains). 



Type in the Leyden Museum. 



The above description is drawn up from the tjrpical specimen, 

 which, by the kindness of Dr. F. A, Jentink, I have had the oppor- 

 tunity of examining in the museum under his charge. 



9. Pseudochirus canescens. 



Phalanger grisonnant, lIomin\ <§• Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atl. Zool. pi. 



xvi. (animal and skull) (1845). 

 Phalangista (Pseudochirus) canescens, Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. 



p. 305 (1846) ; Homhr. Sf Jacq. Voy. Pole 8M, Zool. iii. p, 33 



(1858) ; Wagn. Schr. Sixug. Supp. v. p. 276 (1856) ; Gieh. Saug. 



p. 698 (1859). 

 Phalangista bernsteini, Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierh. iii. p. 357 



(1866) ; id. Bierent. p. 166 (1872) ; Peters 8r Doria, Ann. Mus. 



Oenov. xvi. p. 676, pi. xii. (animal) (1881) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. 



Mm. p. 315 (1887). 

 Phalangista grisescens, Peters, Ann. Mus. Genov. vi. p. 303 (1874). 

 Pseudochirus bernsteini, Jent. Notes Leyd. Mus. vi. p. 109 (1884). 



HoAET PkAIANGBE. 



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Size small, form slender ; the head and limbs especially small in 

 proportion to the size of the body. Fur short and close ; underfur 

 thick and wooUy, brown. General colour silvery grey. Face and 

 cheeks pale brovmish yellow, much paler than the body ; centre of 

 face with a sharply marked dark longitudinal Une, commencing in 

 front of the eyes and running down the nape on to the back, where 

 it broadens into an indistinct darker band nearly an inch in breadth. 

 Ear (PL XVII. fig. 5) very small, laid forward (in spirit-specimens) it 

 does not reach halfway to the eye ; its outline nearly circular, its 

 interior surface naked, without extra tragoid projections additional 

 to the metatragus ; its back thickly hariry, dark brown, which colour 

 is continued downwards on to the sides of the head as a marked 

 black patch, not margined anteriorly by a paler spot. No tufts of 

 longer hairs round or on the ears. Chin brown, chest and belly 



