24 Mamm, 
MAMMALIA. 
var. torosus described, id. op. cit. ii. p, 12, North Australia ; P. more&- 
byensis, sp. n., id. tom. cit, p. 14 [New Guinea ?] 
^ PhALANGISTIDJ]. 
/ Cuscus vestitiis, sp. n., A. Milue-Edwards, C. R. Ixxxv. p. 1080, New 
^'Guinea. 
\ JPromicia caudata, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 
1079, New Guinea. 
MACROPODIDiB. 
E. Alix has notes on the mechanism of mastication in the Kangaroos ; 
Bull. Soc. Z. Fr. ii. pp. 65 & 66. 
^'^Ilalmaturua broimi, sp. n., E. Pierson Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
( i. p. 307 = Macropus lugeiis, sp. n., E. R. Alston, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 126, 
1 pi. xix,, New Ireland. The former name has priority ; E. R. Alston, 
\tom. cit. p. 743. 
Pleopus, g. n., R. Owen, Ann. N. H. (4) xx. p. 642, allied to Hypsi- 
prymnus, but with five digits on hind foot. Type, P. nudicaudatus, sp. n., 
id. 1. c. Australia. 
Petrogale assimilis, sp. n., E. Pierson Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
i. p. 360, North Australia. 
Sthenurus minor, sp. n. (foss.), R. Owen, P. Z. S. p. 353, pis. xxxvii. & 
xxxviii., alluvial deposits of New South Wales. The author discusses 
the affinities of Sthenurus, which he considers quite distinct from Dor- 
copsis [cf. Zool. Rec. xii. p. 24]. Tom, cit. pp. 352-361. 
ORNITHODELPHIA. 
MONOTREMATA. 
OliNITHORRHYNCHlDAiJ. 
Ornithorrhynchus anatinus. G. F. Bennett has notes on its burrows and 
breeding habits, to which R. Owen adds some remarks ; P. Z. S. 1877, 
pp. 161-166. W. W. Spicer records a case in which a w<iund from the 
spur of a Platypus was apparently attended by symptoms of poisoning ; 
P. R Soc. Tasm. 1876, pp. 162-167. 
Tachyglossid.®]. 
Echidna lawesi, sp. n., E. Pierson Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 
p. iJ2, pi. i.. Southern New Guinea. 
Tachyglossus bruijni, sp. n., W. Peters & G. Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov, 
ix. p. 183 [“ Dec., 1876,^’ but P published before 1878], Northern New 
Guinea. Skull figured, p. 184. Cf. Nature xv. pp. 257-258 [Jan. 1877]. 
Made type of Acanthoglossus, g. n. [ — a, Kraatz, 1868, Coleopt.], P. 
Gervais, 0. R. Ixxxv. p. 837 & 990 ; J. Zool. vi. pp. 376-379 ; having only 
three toes with claws on each foot, and the rostrum of the skull being 
greatly produced and curved. 
