CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



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most careful examination of the space between the front upper cut- 

 ting teeth, that I could find any indication of the front pair of cut- 

 tins: teeth found in the allied genus Antechinus. 



Fig. 4. 



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This genus is evidently allied to the genus Antechinus of Australia; 

 but it is known at once by its external form, which is just that of a 

 small Indian Herpestes or Ichneumon, having like that genus a de- 

 pressed tail with long spreading hair, hroad and depressed at the 

 base, tapering to an acute tip which bears a pencil of hairs. 



Myoictis Wallacit. 



Myoictis Wallacii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, t. 64. 



Rusty-brown, with interspersed black longer hairs ; head redder ; 

 throat, chest and belly pale reddish ; side of the neck at the base of 

 the ears bright reddish ; ears, and the greater part of the tail bright 

 red-brown ; tip of the tail black. 



Hab. Aru Island (Wallace). 



Male. Aru Island. 



" In houses as destructive as rats to everything eatable. 



"Teeth 34:— Inc. f; C. £| ; Prem - i=5 > M - 5=l"— Wallace. 



Dactylopsila. 



Bactylopsila, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 



Tail elongate, slender, depressed, densely clothed with fur, with 

 the exception of the under side near the tip, which is bald and cal- 

 lous, the end rather bushy. Ears elongate, rounded, bald, except 

 at the outer sides of the base. Pupil round ? The fore-feet elon- 

 gate ; toes very slender, compressed, very unequal in length, quite 

 free ; the outer and third or middle toe nearly equal, the second 

 or ring-finger much the longest, the fourth and fifth short, the fifth 

 or innermost the shortest. The hind-feet slender, toes compressed, 

 the two outer toes elongate, nearly equal, the two inner about half 

 Ihe length and united. 



