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Show 1884.] MARSUPIALS FROM QUEENSLAND. 387 Hab. Northern Queensland ; legit Dr. Lumholtz 1883. (Female and young, preserved in the University Museum, Christiania.) Alote. The young specimen, only half grown, is in every respect similar to the full-grown female except in size. Fig. 6. Phalangista lemuroides, ?. Side view of skull. Side view of lower jaw. 4. D E N D R O L A G U S L U M H O L T Z I , sp. nov. (Plate XXXII.) General characters.-Yellowish grey, the back grizzled with blackish ; snout, ears, fingers, toes, and occiput black ; the tail black on lower surface. Description.-Upper parts grey; on the back the hairs are blackish with pale bases and points, giving these parts a grizzly hue. On the vertex of the back the hairs are almost uniformly black, extending as a broad stripe upwards, and covering the occiput and the ears on their outer surface. The lower back is clearer yellowish grey, the blackish hairs being somewhat scarcer, but forming an indistinct dark patch on the root of the tail. Lower parts pale yellowish, deeper on the flanks ; the throat whitish. Limbs coloured on upper surface like the back ; on the metacarpus and metatarsus rusty red, with numerous interspersed black hairs. Fingers and toes deep black. Claws black. Head : the snout, chin, and lower jaw black ; the forehead grey, in some specimens more blackish or almost black. Tail pale yellowish grey above, with numerous black hairs; lower surface black or blackish ; the tip in some specimens whitish. Ears short, covered with moderately long hairs; external surface black, inner pale yellow. Skull.-The skull and dentition seem not to differ in any essential way from that of the Papuan Dendrolagi. Leno-th of the body about 700 millim., of the tail about 680 millim. ; but the species is said to obtain a much greater size. Hab. Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland ; legit Dr. Lumholtz, |
