2. PEEAMELES. 241 



above for about two thirds of its length, from thence fawn-colour to 

 the tip, sparingly clothed with short hair. 



Shull and teeth apparently precisely similar to those of P. 

 raffrayana, except that both are larger. {See measurements p. 249.) 



S. 

 Type (skin in spirit). 



miUim. 



Head and body 508 



Tail 200 



Hind foot 98 



Muzzle to eye 68 



Ear .: (c.)25 



Skull, see p. 249. 



Hal. S.E. New Guinea. 



Type in the Sydney Museum. 



The distiQction of this species from P. raffrayana appears to be 

 somewhat doubtful, judging merely from the original description 

 and figures, to which aloue I have had access, and from which the 

 above account has been drawn up. The size alone is scarcely 

 enough to distinguish the species, as the type specimen is a very 

 old male, and may therefore be abnormally large. The peculiar 

 structure and apparently prehensile nature of the tail, however, 

 induce me for the present to retain the species as distinct, at least 

 until I have been able to examine specimens of it. 



8. Ferameles longicandata. 



Perameles longicauda, Peters Sr Doria, Ann. Mus. Oenov. viii. p. 335 

 (1876); xvi. p. 672, pi. x. (animal). (1881). 



Size small, form Kght and slender. Fur much as in P. raffrayana, 

 close, coarse, and hispid, but not spiny. General colour of head 

 and body dull greyish brown, the stiffer hairs uniformly brown, the 

 thinner ones tipped with dull yellow or grey. Ears rather small, 

 broader in proportion than in P. raffrayana, laid forward they reach 

 to within about 7 or 8 millim. of the eye ; metatragus low, triangular, 

 bluntly pointed. Chin greyish brown, chest and belly white or 

 yellowish. Limbs brown externally, yellowish internally. Hairs 

 on hands brown, but the fingers naked ; backs of feet white. Hind 

 soles whoUy naked, finely granulated, with minute rudimentary pads 

 at the bases of the digits. TaU as long as the body without the 

 head, tapering, thinly haired, its terminal two inches and its under- 

 side white, the remainder brown. Mammae 6. 



SJcull very smaU and delicate, its proportions very much as in 

 P. raffrayana. Breadth of nasals going about 5J times in their 

 length. Interorbital region, laorymal 'bones, foramen rotundum, and 



