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Show 1884.] MARSUPIALS F R O M QUEENSLAND. 383 Length of the body about 300 millim., of the tail about 290 millim. Hab. Northern Queensland, legit Dr. Lumholtz, 1883. (One specimen, preserved in the University Museum, Christiania.) Phalangista archeri, $. Side view of skull. Side view of lower jaw. 2. PHALANGISTA HERBERTENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate XXX.) General characters.-Brownish black above; lower surface white or whitish. Tail with short hairs in its apical third. Ears small, black. Description.-Male. Upper parts: head with chin and back blackish brown, with numerous interspersed reddish-brown hairs ; the root of the fur blackish. Lower parts white, this colour covering the throat, belly, and inner side of the limbs. Ears short, rounded, black, with short hairs; length from their anterior base 13 millim, Nose broad, blackish, the shortest breadth of the naked area being 8 millim. Limbs black, with a broad white ring round the elbows; the hind feet black above, white on inner side. Claws pale yellow. Tail deep black, the apical third white; the naked line on lower surface very long, about two thirds of the length of the tail. Length of the body about 310 millim., of the tail 280-300 millim. Female. Another specimen from the same locality, a female, comes very near the male described above; but the lower surface is not snowy white, but greyish white, and no trace is visible of the white rino1 round the elbows. The back is of a more reddish brown. Skull - A deep groove between the frontal crests ; the parietal 26* |