240 PBEAMULIDJS. 



not ridged. Zygomata but little expanded. Palate with the 

 anterior foramina reaching nearly to the level of the front of the 

 canines ; and with a single pair of vacuities opposite m.* and m.' 

 Foramen rotundum with its walls produced forwards into a bony 

 tube, as in P. doreyana. Bullss minute and very incomplete. 



Teeth large and strong. Upper incisors 5 in number; the 

 anterior four broad and spatulate, i.' rather less than a millimetre 

 distant from i.'', pointed, narrower than the rest. Canine of about 

 the vertical height of p/, distant about 3 millim. from i.' and 4 

 millim. from p.^ Premolars long and strong, diastema between p." 

 and p.'' about 3 niillim. ; p.* but little thickened postero-internally. 

 Molars large and strong,, broadly triangular in outline, with shallow, 

 widely open V-shaped spaces between them. Lower teeth similar 

 in character to the upper ; canine about as long as p.^ 



k (stuffed); a (akin in spirit). 



Adult. Adult, 



millim. millim. 



Head and body 410 330 



Tail 185 172 



Hind foot 82 74 



Muzzle to eye 53 48 



Ear : -. . 25 26 , 



Skull, see p. 249. 



Hob. New Guinea (Amberbaki, Huon Gulf, Goldie's E.). 

 Type in the Paris Museum. 



J Ad. al. I o Huon Gulf, E. New P. Oomrie, Esq. [0.]. 



"•j Skull, f ?• Guinea. ' i L j 



, 1 Ad. St. I , /ox Goldie's R., S.E. New A. Goldie, Esq. [0.1. 



*• j SkuU. f ^ (• >■ Guinea. ' -i L . 



7. Perameles broadbenti. 



Perameles broadbenti. Mama. P. lAnn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 402, 

 pi. xxvii. (animal, skull, &o.),, 1878 (pub. 1879). 



Size very large; head long and slender. Fur comparatively 

 smooth, not so harsh as in P. ncmuta, tjae longer black hairs 

 flattened, stiff, but not spiny, the longest about an inch in length. 

 General colour blackish brown. Head ashy, pencilled with blackish. 

 Ears rather small for the size of the animal, narrow, rounded at their 

 tips ; metatragus low, not markedly projecting. Back hairs dark 

 brown tipped with fawn, the longer, stiffer hairs whoUy black. 

 Throat, sides, and under surface fawn-colour, a little brighter on 

 the sides and chest. Limbs where hairy brown or fawn-coloured, 

 the hands almost naked. Eeet roughened below, with flattish scales ; 

 (pads apparently not present). Tail long, scaly above, covered with 

 transverse flattish scaly tubercles below, to the very tip, blackish 



