238 MBAMBlrDiK. 



Hah. New Guinea and neighbouring islands, including the Kei 

 and Aru groups. 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



a. Ad. al., 2 . Sorong, N.W. New Guinea Genoa Museum 



(IfAnertis). [E.]. 



6. Ad. sk., $ , 20/4/75. Sorong, N. G. {Bruijn). Genoa Museum 



[E.]. 

 c. Ad. al., 3 . Huon Gulf, N. G. P. Comrie, Esq. 



[0.]. 

 , I Ad. sk. I , Huon Gulf, N. G. P. Comne, Esq. 



^- j Skull, f ^- [C.]. 



r Ad. sk. I n Aru Islands. A. E. Wallace, 



"■ 1 Skull, f ?• Esq. [0.]. 



/. Ad. skull, $ . Giahu Lengan, Aru Is. KowalevskiColl. 



g. Yg. al., ? . Mr. J. Beazley 



[0.]. 



5. Ferameles cockerelU. 



Perameles cockerelli. Rams. P. Linn. Soo. iV. S. W. i. pp. 310 & 378 



(1877). 

 Perameles myoides, Gunth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) xi. p. 247 (1883). 

 Perameles (Brachymelis) garagassi, Mikl.-Mael. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ix. p. 715, pi. xxxviii. (animal, skull, &c.) (1884). 



Size markedly smaller, and muzzle shorter than in P. doreyana. 

 Quality of far as in that species. General colour of back coarsely 

 grizzled black and yellow. Muzzle short and broad, the distance 

 from the nose to the anterior oanthus of the eye less than, or barely, 

 40 miUim. Face and crown dark brown, scarcely grizzled ; sides of 

 face, below eyes, sharply contrasted white. Ears small, but, owing 

 to the general shortness of the head, reaching, when laid forward, 

 to within only 2 or 3 millim. of the posterior canthus of the eye. 

 Metatragus triangular, pointed. Spines of back grey, with their 

 tips black; thinner hairs yeUow-tipped anteriorly, this colour 

 becoming gradually darker posteriorly until on the rump it is 

 bright orange. Chin, chest, and belly sharply defined white. 

 Arms and legs brown, hands white, feet grey. Hind feet only 

 about 50-55 millim. long in the male and from 40 to 45 millim. in 

 the female ; soles whoUy naked, finely granulated, without pads. 

 Mammifi 6. 



Slcull as in P. doreyana, except that it is smaller and the muzele 

 is shorter, the distance from the tip of the premaxiUaB to the front 

 of the orbit being only from 30 to 35 millim. Greatest breadth of 

 nasals going from 4| to 5g times in their length. 



Teeth (PL XXII. fig. 4). Upper i.* whoHy absent ; i.* decidedly 

 shorter antero-posteriorly than i.^ and i.% about equal to i.' 

 Canine very small, about the length of p.', its distance behind i.* 

 from 4g to 5| miUim., and in front of p.^ about 2 millim. Pre- 

 molars evenly increasing in size backwards, p.'' with a distinct 

 postero-internal basal ledge. Molars broader and more quadrangular 

 than in P. doreyana, their outer sides shorter in proportion to their 



