Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New GuineaPratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar)
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Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea
Pratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar)
Ethnology -- New Guinea; Natural history -- New Guinea; New Guinea -- Description and travel
│Asura dinawa, spec. │Dinawa │August │
│ nov. │ │ │
│Eugoa tricolora, spec. │Dinawa │August │
│ nov. │ │ │
│Eugoa conflua, spec. │Dinawa │August and September │
│ nov. │ │ │
│Amphoraceras │Dinawa │August │
│ rothschildi │ │ │
│Parabasis pratti, spec.│Dinawa │August │
│ nov. │ │ │
│Collusa ekeikei, spec. │Ekeikei; Mount Kebea │January and February; │
│ nov. │ │ March and April │
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APPENDIX II
A NEW REPTILE FROM DINAWA
_Toxicocalamus Stanleyanus_
Rostral much broader than deep, just visible from above; internasals
nearly as long as the præfrontals, which are in contact with the second
upper labial and with the eye; frontal small, slightly broader than the
supraocular, once and three-fourths as long as broad, as long as its
distance from the end of the snout, a little shorter than the parietals;
one postocular; temporals, one plus two; five upper labials, second and
third entering the eye; three lower labials in contact with the anterior
chin-shields, which are larger than the posterior. Scales in fifteen
rows. Ventrals, 261; anal entire; subcaudals, twenty-five pairs; tail
ending in a compressed, obtusely pointed scute, which is obtusely keeled
above. Blackish-brown above; traces of a yellowish nuchal collar; upper
lip white; two outer rows of scales white, each scale with a blackish
central spot; ventrals and subcaudals white, with a black spot on each
side, some of the ventrals with an interrupted blackish border.
Total length, 610 millimetres; tail, 40.
APPENDIX III
A NEW FISH DISCOVERED BY THE EXPEDITION
_Rhiacichthys Novæ Guineæ_
Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, five to six times in total
length. Diameter of eye six or seven times in length of head,
interorbital width three times; snout but very slightly longer than
postocular part of head. Dorsals VII., I. 8–9; longest spine, ¾; longest
soft ray ⅘ length of head. Anal I. 8–9; longest ray as long as head.
Pectoral about 1½ length of head; ventral as long as head, or a little
longer. Caudal feebly emarginate. Caudal peduncle 2½ as long as deep.
Scales strongly ciliated, 37 to 39 in a longitudinal series on each
side, 14 or 16 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive above, whitish beneath.
Total length, 225 millimetres.
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