12 Di'. F. A. JENTINK. MAMMALS. 



N°. 128. Adult female (flat skin, with skull), Alkmaar, August 21. 1907, 

 N°. 131. Adult female (flat skin, with skull), Alkmaar, August 24. 1907. 



They présent the brilliant deep rufous and the splendid black color so typical for 

 New Guinea spécimens generally. N°. 99 has three — instead of the usual two — intermediate 

 teeth in the left lower jaw. 



14. Dactylopsila trivirgata Gray. 



N°. 71. Young maie (in alcohol), Merauke, 1907, presented by Mr. K. M. van Weel. 



Recently (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 8, Vol. I, January 1908, p. 122) OLDFIELD 

 Thomas described a new species of Dactylopsila from S. E. New Guinea, under the title of 

 melampus, having hands and feet wholly black, meanwhile trivirgata Gray from N. W. New 

 Guinea has hands and feet wholly white according to the same author. In our collection however 

 is an adult maie [e of my Catalogue, 1888), collected by VON RoSENBERG, January 1. 1869, 

 at Doré; this animal has the hands white but the feet wholly blackish brown coloured; Doré 

 is N. W. New Guinea, and it therefore should hâve wholly white hands and feet! Our young 

 maie from Merauke has the fingers of the hands for their terminal half white, and the fingers 

 of the feet wholly white as well as lialfzuay the metatarsals ! To which of the by OLDFIELD 

 Thomas distinguished species belong thèse two animais? I think our material too small as 

 yet; moreover OLDFIELD THOMAS described in his Standard-Catalogue (1888, p. 161) trivirgata 

 as having hands and feet brown, and brought under that head together a spécimen from 

 Sogeri, 5. E. New Guinea with Albertisi Peters and Doria from Sorong, the extrême N. W. 

 New Guinea; the latter as representing not more than an individual-, or at most a slight local 

 variety of trivirgata! Previously it seems to me indicated to accept for New Guinea two 

 species of Dactylopsila, viz. trivirgata Gray and the enormously-elongated-finger-bearing 

 palpator A. Milne Edwards. 



15. Perameles doreyana Quoy et Gaimard. 



Young maie (in alcohol), Bivak Island, July 23. 1907. 



In each upper jaw only two molars developed. Tail only a small pièce of 30 mm., 

 therefore incomplète. 



Upper incisors 2X4 in number, so typical in doreyana and Cockerelli. OLDFIELD 

 THOMAS (Catalogue, p. 236) brought under the head of doreyana also aruensis Peters and 

 Doria; but I see (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Vol. XVI, 1880, Tav. VIII, fig. 1), 

 that in the figure of the skull of that typical arueusis-specimen there are 2 X S incisors 

 instead of 2 X 4 ! If the drawing is correct, then aruensis Peters and Doria cannot belong to 

 doreyana; moreover the skull of aruensis (cf. figures) seems to be a good deal larger than 

 that of doreyana! Without that type in hands I cannot décide to which species it belongs. 



Palate-ridges of P. doreyana never before figured (fig. 15). For comparison palate-ridges 

 of P. moresbyensis represented by fig. 16. 



