. Catalogue of the Mammalia and birds of New Guinea, in the collection of the British Museum . ore distinct, conical tubercle onthe front and hinder edge (figs. 3, 4). True grinders ^^; the ui)per large, triangular, acutely lobed; the lower compressed, very acutely lobed; the middle one in eachjaw the largest. The angle of the lower jaw is produced, elongate and strongly in-flexed, as is usual in Marsiqnalia. Skull: length, 1 inch 3 lines ; width, all the zygomatic arch,9 lines;length of the tooth-line 9 lines. Length of the lower jaw 11^, ofsymphysis 4i, of tooth-hne 7\ lines (figs. 1, 2, 3,
. Catalogue of the Mammalia and birds of New Guinea, in the collection of the British Museum . ore distinct, conical tubercle onthe front and hinder edge (figs. 3, 4). True grinders ^^; the ui)per large, triangular, acutely lobed; the lower compressed, very acutely lobed; the middle one in eachjaw the largest. The angle of the lower jaw is produced, elongate and strongly in-flexed, as is usual in Marsiqnalia. Skull: length, 1 inch 3 lines ; width, all the zygomatic arch,9 lines;length of the tooth-line 9 lines. Length of the lower jaw 11^, ofsymphysis 4i, of tooth-hne 7\ lines (figs. 1, 2, 3, 4). This genus is peculiar, because, as far as the dentition is concerned,there is no character by which we should have determined that itwas a Marsupial animal; but the form of the angle of the lowerjaw at once shows its true afliuity to that group. It was not until a CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA, II most-careful examination of the space betweenthe front upper cut-ting teeth, that I could find any indication of the front pair of cut-ting teeth found in the allied genus Fig. 4. This genus is evidently allied to the genus Antechinus of Australia;but it is known at once by its external form, which is just that of asmall Indian Ilerpestes or Ichneumon, having like that genus a de-pressed tail with long spreading hair, hroad and depressed at thebase, tapering to an acute tip which bears a pencil of hairs. Myoictis Wallacit. Myoictis Wallacii, Gray, Proc. .Zool. Soc. 1858, t. 64. Rusty-brown, with intersj)ersed black longer liairs ; head redder ;throat, chest and belly pale reddish ; side of the neck at the base ofthe ears l^right reddish ; cars, and the greater part of the tail brightred-brown ; tij) of the tail black. Hab.^ Island {Wallace). Male.* Aru Island. In houses as destructive as rats to everything eatable. - Teeth 34:—Inc. |-; C. Je| ; Irem. g ; U. ^0/—Wallace. Dactylopsila.• Bactylo2)sila, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858. Tail elongate, s
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