Peroryctes broadbenti (Ramsay, 1879) . Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 3:402, pl. 27.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., banks of Goldie River (a tributary of the Laloki River) inland from Port Moresby .

DISTRIBUTION: S.E. New Guinea.

COMMENT: Included in raffrayanus by Laurie and Hill, 1954:10, but considered a distinct species by Van Deusen and Jones, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 74.