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M i : i ; i STIC VARIATION. 



[PART i. 



size and form of " p 3 ." In lower jaw, right side 3 interm. teeth ; 

 li-t't side no intiTin. tooth. B. M., 1936,^. 



*.'>7.~). SjM'cimi-n li.-iving two small premolars on each side between p^_ and 

 . Tin- two teeth are very small and sharply pointed (Fig. 65). In 



I 



IV 



FIG. 65. Teeth of Phalanger orientalis. No. 375. 



I. Premolars of left upper jaw, surface and side views. 



II. and III. Kight and left lower jaws as far as p 4 . 

 IV. The same in surface view. 



(From a drawing kindly sent by Dr JENTIXK.) 



the lower jaw there are on the right side five intermediate teeth be- 

 twi-i-n the inri-or and //<. and on the left side four such teeth (instead 



of three as tl-liali. /,///. J///x., 104, JENTIXK, F. A., Notr.S L< '/'I. Max.. 



iss:., vii. .. no. 



i >f' the occurrence of small Premolars n ml 

 Intermediate" f<'<-t/i in Phalanger orientalis 

 Phalanger maenlatus. 



f 37G. Phalanger orientalis. 



St;iti-tic< as to tlie absence of tin- Mnall ";> :t , " and as to the number of the 

 "intermediate" ti-th. may conveniently lie ^'ivi'ii to^'i'tln'1- in tabular ft inn. The 

 species has u wide diMril>ution and is by TIHOIAS divided into a larger var. typiciix, 

 and u smaller eastern var. lu'< r/i'c/ix. In the latter the small ]>'' is usually absent. 

 Tlie I.evdi n specimen^ an' not thus divided by JKNTIXK, and in order to include tin- 

 statistics Kiveii la him (I. <-.) the distinction into two races is riot followed in the 

 table. 



When present, "// :l " generally stands at an even distance from yi 1 and y< 4 . as 

 in the left side of Pig. M. (', and nt as in the left side of Fig. 64, A. The 



