24 Mamm. 
MAMMALIA. 
Didelphyida<j. 
Didelphis virginiana. Observations on its development ; W. S. Bar- 
nard (abst.), P. Am. Ass. 1875, b. pp. 145-147. 
Dasyuridjc. 
Phascologale dorsalis, sp. n., W. Peters & G. Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov, 
viii. p. 335, New Guinea. 
Dactylopsila trivirgata. On its range ; E. Pierson Ramsay, Ann. 
N. H. (4) xvii. p. 331. 
Peramelid.®. 
Perameles longicauda, sp. n., W. Peters & G. Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov, 
viii. p. 335, New Guinea. 
Macropodid^. 
E. A. Schafer & D. J. Williams describe the minute structure of 
the mucous membrane of the stomach in Macropus and Dorcopsis^ 
P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 165-177, pis. viii.-xi. 
Hypsiprymnodon, g. n., allied to Hypsiprymnus, but differing in 
dentition ; type, II. moschatus, sp. n. (p. 34), North-east Australia. E. 
Pierson-Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. i. p. 33. 
Halmaturus crassipes, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 162, New Guinea. 
Genus incerta3 sedis. 
Thylacoleo carnifex. On its dentition ; F. McCoy, Prodr. Palaeont. 
Viet., lec. iii. pp. 7-12, pi. xxi. 
ORNITHODELPHIA. 
MONOTREMATA. 
^ C. Creighton suggests that the glandula femoralis, which opens by tC 
long duct on the “spur'* of the male in Ornithorrhynclms and Echidna, 
may prove to bo the homologue of the mammary gland of the female. 
J. Anat. Phys. xi. pp. 29-31. . 
