16 ERIC MJÖBERG, ON A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF MARSUPIALS. 
Tongue: Length 14 mm. Breadth 4,5 mm. 
Digestive canal: (Textfigur 5). Total length 184 mm., very little complicated, sto- 
mach simple. C&ecum well developed, fairly long and narrow, total 
length 17 mm. Rectum thick and comparatively short. Length 15 mm. 
Caudal vertebre: ”The five first ones short with broad processus transversi, the following 
long and narrow, the last ones very minute. Total number 34. 
Fig. 3. Palatal ridges of Fig. 4. Palatal ridges of 
Fudromicia macrura mn. sp. Dromicia concinna. 
Distribution: I have taken four specimens, 3 SJS and 1 2, in the tropical jungles 
near Cedar Creek on the Atherton-Herberton tableland, April 1913. 
They were lying rolled up close together each other. I hold them 
in captivity for a couple of days. They were very quick and very 
lively in all their movements and used their prehensive tail with a 
remarkable ability. They all declined to take food of any kind 
and soon died. 
Type: Zootomical Institute, Stockholm, Swedish State Museum, Stockholm. 
By looking more carefully on the old genus Dromicia with its four hitherto described 
species with their curious distribution we soon find, that the genus by no means 
proves to be a homogenous one. In two of them the number of molars is reduced 
being only three (D. concinna and D. nana) in the two other ones four. It deserves 
to be remarked that in no other genus of the family Phalangeride, the number of 
molars seems to be variable for the different species. 
