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Show 1886.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 549 In the upper jaw the first incisor is short, and almost imperceptibly larger than the other incisors. Canine long and curved. 1 he premolars form an almost unbroken series with the canine and first molar. First premolar very small, scarcelv higher than fourth incisor; second a little larger ; third premolar the largest, the middle cusp being as high as the molars. The molars are rather feeble, with relatively low crowns and blunt cusps; last molar very narrow. In the lower jaw the canine is a little shorter than that in the upper. Fourth molar only a little smaller than third. Incisors and premolars as in upper jaw. Compared with Pk. minima the brain-case is higher, but narrower, and the arcus zygomaticus longer. Ph. apicalis has larger bullae ossece, but shorter foramina incisiva; the third premolar in that species is almost rudimentary, and the second premolar larger than the two other premolars together. In both these species the crests on the brain-case are scarcely developed, and the postorbital processes wanting. Hab. Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland; one specimen, a full-grown male, collected by Dr. Lumholtz, January 1883, is preserved iu the Zoological Museum at Christiana. The specimen was dug out from a hole in the ground, and its habits seemed not to be arboreal1. Christiania, 15th November, 1886. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LX. Fig. 1. Phascologale Virginia, natural size. 2. Skull, natural size. 3. Canines and premolars, three times natural size. December 21, 1886. Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1886 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November was 166, of which 64 were bv presentation, 22 by purchase, 16 by birth, 4 were received in exchange, and 60 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 107. 1 M y friend, M r . Oldfield Thomas, informs me, on the authority of M . Huet, of Paris, that the original type of this species, the locality of which was unknown, appears to have been lost; and as the animal has been overlooked ever since its first description, I have thought it worth while to figure and redescribe it from the beautiful specimen obtained in Queensland by Dr. Lumholtz. |