2. tEEAMELlS. 289 



inner, and the internal V-shaped spaces between them therefore 

 nearly or quite closed up. 



Dimensions, 



<s. ?. 



b (sMn). * (in spirit). 



Adult. Adult. 



millim. miUim. 



Head and body 300 270 



Tail (c.) 85 71 



Hind foot 52 45 



Muzzle to eye 38 32-5 



Ear 17 18 



Skull, see p. 249. 



Hab. North coast of New Guinea, and islands (Salawatti, Misori, 

 and New Britain group). 

 Type in Sydney Museum. 



a. Imm. al., 5 . New Britain {Kleinschmidt). Godeflfroy Museum. 



{Type of P. myoides, Giinth.) 

 , I Ad. sk. I , Duke of York Island. Eev. G. Brown [0.1. 



*• ] Skull. \<S- 



6. Ferameles raffrayana. 



Perameles raffrayana, A. M.-Edw. Ann. Soi. Nat. (6) vii. (Art. xi.) 

 pi. viii. (animal) (1878). 



Size rather large, form light and delicate ; head long and slender. 

 Fur thick and close, although hispid, slightly spinous locally, but 

 never so spinous as in the members of the P. ohesula group ; rather 

 more as in P. nasuta. General colour of back coarsely grizzled 

 rufous or umber-brown, the stiffer semi-spinous hairs black, the 

 thinner ones dark orange or rufous tipped. Head dark brown, 

 sides of face paler. Muzzle very long and slender, top and sides of 

 nose naked. Ears longer and narrower than in any of the preceding 

 species, but, owing to the length of the head, they do not, when laid 

 forward, quite reach to the eye ; their tip evenly rounded ; meta- 

 tragus small, but little more than a simple ridge, sometimes with a 

 low triangular projection at its centre. Chin and chest white ; 

 beUy brown or mixed white and brown. Limbs, uniformly brown 

 wherever hairy, but the fingers nearly naked. Hind soles quite 

 naked, coarsely granulated ; with indietiuct and rudimentary pads 

 at the bases of the fourth, and fifth digits. Tail long, cylindrical, 

 uniformly clothed with short fiue black hairs, above and below. 

 Mammae 8. 



Skull narrow, with a very long slender muzzle. Nasals much 

 elongated, their greatest breadth going 6 or 7 times into their 

 length. Interorbital region smooth and rounded, lacrymal bones 



* No. 59, Museo Civico, Genoa. 



