236 PEKAMELIDiB. 



I have had cbnsiderable hesitation in retaining this species as 

 distinct from P. maerura; but the differences between the two, 

 although slight, seem to be constant, and their respective localities 

 being definitely separated by sea, intermediate specimens are not 

 very likely to occur. It is, however, worthy of note that specimen 

 c of the present species, externally quite identical with a and 6 and 

 collected with it, has its teeth small and rounded, very much as in 

 P. obesula, thus showing how large a range of variation must be 

 allowed between the different species of Perameles. 



„ I Ad. sks. 1 J, n Aleya, S.E. New Guinea. Dr. James [CI 



"■-"• ■jSkuUs. J-cfV- •' 



d. Yg. sk. Port Moresby, N. G. Dr. Turner [0.]. 



IAd.sk.lQ S.E. New Guinea (0. C. Leicester Museum 



*• ) SkuU. / + ■ Stone). JE.]. 



/. Ad. al., 9 & yg., Kalo, S.E. New Guinea, IL 0. Forbes, Esq. 



10/11/85. 1750 ft. [0.]. 



4. Perameles doreyana. 



Perameles doreyana, Quoy 8f Oaim. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 100, 



pi. xvi. (animal, skull, &c.) (1880) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. (Compl. 



Buff.) V. p. 373 (1836) ; Waterh. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. xi. 



p. 161 (1841); Wagn. Schr. Saug. Svpp. iii. p. 60 (1843), v. 



p. 214 (1855) i Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 516 (1844) ; Waterh. 



N. H. Mamm. i. p. 886 (1846) ; Oi-ay, Zool. Voy. Samm-ang, Vert. 



p. 32 (1850); Qray, P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 113; Oieb. Siiug. p. 723 



(1859); Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 853 (1866); id. 



JDierent. p. 164 (1872) ; Peters ^ Doria, Ann. Mies. Genov. xvi. 



p. 670 (1881); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 806 (1887). 

 Perameles iirfescens, Peters 8f Doria, Ann. Mus. Genoo. vii. p. 541 



(1875), xvi. p. 671 (1881). 

 Perameles aruensis, Peters 8^ Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 542 



(footnote) (1875); xvi. p. 671, pi. viii. fig. 1, & pl.ix.flg. 1 (skull) 



(1881)*. 



Size large, muzzle long, limbs short. Pur exceedingly coarse 

 and spiny, the flattened bristles channelled on each side, from one 

 half to seven eighths of a millimetre in breadth, and even the 

 slenderer underfur coarse and hispid.' General colour of body dark 

 coppery brown, coarsely grizzled with orange, the flattened bristles 

 uniformly brown, the thinner hairs grey, with their tips yellow 

 anteriorly and orange posteriorly, the latter often exceedingly 



* The foEowing synonymy refers either to P. doreyana or P. cockerelli, but, 

 in addition to the fact tiiat the name " KaUm " was not at first applied bi- 

 nomially, it is impossible to determine to which of the two it shoiild be 

 assigned, the type having been lost and the description being equally 

 applicable to young specimens of either. ' 



Kalubu, Less. Voy. Cogmlle, i. pt. i. p. 123 (1826). . 



Perameles (?) Kalubu, Less. Did. Class. d'H. N. xiii. p. 200 (1828) ; Fisch. 

 Syn. Mamm. p. 274 (1829). 



Eohymipera kalubu, Less. N. Tail. B. A., Mamm. p. 192 (1842) ; Desm. Diet, 

 ""-"-■v. dm. N. ix. p. 579 (1849). 



