738 OLDFIELD THOMAS. 



on the face, the definite light lines on each side of it being replaced by ill-defined lighter 

 areas. A blackish ring round eyes and another round base of ears, but the two not united 

 to form a definite dark line from muzzle to ear. Posteriorly again the dorsal line is narrow 

 and indistinct, owing to the absence on each side of it of the bounding light lines, and outer 

 secondary black lines, the latter being just vaguely perceptible. Back of ears almost naked. 

 Hands and feet whitish or pale whitish brown, decidedly paler than in ornatus. Tail with 

 the short-haired part almost completely naked above, a few minute hairs rarely two scales 

 long, while in ornatus this part is clothed with fairly numerous hairs about 4 scales long, 

 practically hiding the skin ; its colour grey for three fourths its length, the tip white. 



Skull and teeth very similar to those of ornatus, except that there are no anterior 

 vacuities on the palate opposite the anterior premolars, and the incisors are broader and more 

 spatulate, but either character may be purely individual. 



Dimensions of the type: 



Head and body 270 mm.; tail 185; hindfoot 54; ear 23. 



Skull, greatest length 63; condylo-basal length 61 ; zygomatic breadth 22.5; nasals 25; 

 interorbital breadth 13.5; dental length 35; combined length of three anterior molariform 

 teeth 10. 



Hab. and Type as above. 



This interesting Bandicoot alone resembles in its striping and gênerai characters P. 

 ornatus of the far distant Aroa River, British New Guinea, but difters from that by the prac- 

 tically complète nakedness of the upper side of the tail, and the lesser development and 

 vividness of the black dorsal stripe, which is hère not shown up by lighter bands on each 

 side of it on face and rump. 



In its essential characters of skull and proportions the species resembles P. longicaudata 

 of the Arfak, but Dr. O. DE BEAUX has been good enough to re-examine the type of that 

 animal in the Genoa Muséum, and confirms for me the statement that it has no trace of a 

 darker dorsal band. 



40. Dasyurus albopunctatns, Schl. 



cf. N°. 4. Pionier-bivak, Mamberamo River. 7 July 1920. W. C. van Heurn. 

 Ç. N°. 10. Doormanpad-bivak, 1410 m. 5 October 1920. W. C. van Heurn. 



Corning almost from the same place, thèse two spécimens differ somewhat, the maie 

 darker, less rufous, and with larger bullae than the female. 



\Phascogale lorentzi, Jent. 



cf Q in al. Dromedaris, Lorentz [Noord River]. Dr. Versteeg. 

 5 cf. 2 Ç- in al. Bijenkorf, Lorentz River. Dr. Versteeg. 

 9 in al. Treub-bivak, Noord River. Dr. Versteeg. 



Native name „Gnambot". G. V. 



This fine séries is of much interest and value, for hitherto only one spécimen, the 

 type, has been known, and owing to its blackish colour that has been supposed to be a 

 melano. It would now appear, from the constancy of this séries, and the fact that the animal 



