242 PEBAMEUBiE. 



bullse as in P. raffrayana. Anterior palatine foramina only reaching 

 to the level of i.° Bony palate with two small irregular vacuities 

 opposite p.', as well as the usual laxge pair opposite the molars. 



Teeth very light and weak. Upper i.' slender, styhformj standing 

 more than a millimetre from i." Canine barely as long as p.', 

 2 millim. from i.', and about 1^ miUim. from p.* Premolars small 

 and delicate. Diastema between p.' and p.' about 1| millim. ; p.* 

 triangular in section. Molars shaped as ia P. raffrayana, but very 

 much smaller. Lower teeth like upper; diastemata in front of 

 and behind canine each about 2^ millim. -Premolars small, about 

 equal in height, separated from each other and from m.' by diastemata 

 of about 1 millim. each. 



2. 



1)jpe * (in spirit). 



Adult. 



millim. 



Head and body 272 



Tail 197 



Hind foot ' 54 



Muzzle to eye 38 



Ear 19 



Skull, see p. 249. 



Hah. Arfak Mountains, N.W. New Guinea. 



Type in the Museo Civico, Genoa. 



The above description has been drawn up from the typical and 

 only known specimen, for the loan of which I am indebted to the 

 Marquis G. Doria. 



9. Ferameles nasuta. 



Perameles ■aaso.ta,,Geoff. Ann. Mus. iv. p. 62, pi. xliv. (animal & skull) 

 (1804) ; G. Fisch. Zoogn. iii. p. 13 (1814) ; Q. Cuv. R. A. i. p. 177 

 (1817) ; Besm. iV. Diet. XB. N. (2) xxv. p. 183 (1817) ; iA. Mamm. 

 i. p. 265 (1820) ; Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 256 (1821) ; F. Cuv. 

 Diet. iSoi. Nat. xxxviii. p. 416 (1825) ; Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. K. 

 iii. p. 39, fig. (animal), v. p. 195 (1827) ; Less. Man. Mamm. 

 p. 216 (1827); id. Diet. Class. d'H. N. xiii. p. 199 (1828); Lac4p. 

 CEuvr. Buff. xxvi. p. 224 (1828); Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 273 

 (1829) ; Burm. Lehrb. Naturg. p. 548 (1830) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. 

 (Compl. Buff.) iv. p. 483 (1830) ; Grant, Mem. Wern. N. H. Soc. 

 vi. p. 184 (1832) (anat.); Waterh. Cai. Mamm. Mus. Z. S. 

 p. 65 (1838) ; Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 (1841) ; Waterh. 

 Jard. Nat. lAbr., Mamm. xi. p. 155, pi. xiii. (animal) (1841) ; 

 Owen, Tr. Z. 8. ii. p. 320 (1841) ; Less. N. TaU. B. A., Mamm. 

 p. 191 (1842); Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 96 (1843); Wagn. 

 Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 57, pi. civ. a. c (animal) (1843), v. 

 p. 213 (1855) ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. p. 515 (1844) ; Owen, Todd's 

 Cyclop. Anat. iii. p. 260, fig. 84 (skull) (1845) ; Waterh. N. R. 



* No. 40 of the Genoa JHuseum. 



