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Museum at the time of the expedition, now retired, 
the Director of the Museum Zoologicum 
Bogoriense, Bapak M. Amir and to the Indonesian 
Institute of Science (LIPI), particularly Dr Soetikno, 
who sponsored the field work. 
Thanks also to our colleagues Dr Richard How 
and Mr Ron Johnstone, Western Australian 
Museum, for their support and good company in 
the field. Mrs Anne Nevin typed the manuscript. 
Dr Tim Flannery, Australian Museum, Sydney, and 
Dr Chris Smeenk, Natuurhistorisch Museum, 
Leiden, kindly loaned reference specimens. 
Dr Ken Aplin, Western Australian Museum, and 
Dr J. Menzies, University of Papua New Guinea 
offered constructive advice to improve the 
description of the new species. 
Expedition costs were defrayed by grants to Dr 
D. Kitchener from: National Geographic Society, 
Washington and the Australian National Parks and 
Wildlife Service, Canberra and to Drs L. Schmitt, 
D. Kitchener and R. How from the Australian 
Research Council, Canberra. Garuda Indonesia 
kindly defrayed freight costs of the expeditions. 
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Manuscript received 14 November 1993 ; accepted 5 May 1991 
