72 Zoological Society. 



2. A nearly adult male, from the old collection, said to have come 

 from Amboyna. White. 



3. Young male ? Uniform pale brownish-yellow ; throat, chest and 

 belly whiter. From the island of Waygeroo ; procured from M. Ver- 

 reaux of Paris. 



4. Adult female. Ashy-brown, glistened with silvery ; throat, 

 chest and belly pure white ; back with a narrow uniform longitudinal 

 streak. This is sent as Cuscus Quoyii, Lesson, Mamm. 220 ; Ph. 

 Papuensis of ftesmarest, Supp. The figure of M. Gaimard' s animal 

 in the ' Voyage of the Uranie,' t. 6, is more like a variety of C. ursi- 

 nus ; but the description agrees with our animal. 



5. Young female, from the island of Waygeroo ; procured from 

 M. Verreaux. 



6. Young female, from Aru Islands ; procured from Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace. These two only differ from the adult specimen in the 

 silvery hairs of the back being rather more abundant, but they seem 

 to be deciduous. 



Phalangista Papuensis of Desm. was described from a female 

 specimen collected by M. Gaimard, which was afterwards described 

 as Ph. Quoyi. In Quoy and Gaimard, ' Zoology to the Voyage of 

 the Uranie/ it is described as having a darker dorsal line, which 

 rather widens over the loins, which at once shows that it must be the 

 female of P. orientalis. 



Mr. Waterhouse has referred both these names without any com- 

 ment as a synonym of P. maculata, misled probably by Tem- 

 minck, who (Mon. Mamm. i. 18) states them to be the young of P. 

 maculata — evidently overlooking the dorsal stripe. 



Lesson, in the ■ Voyage of the Coquille,' figures a male animal as 

 Cuscus albus, t. 6, from Port Praslin, New Ireland ; it is white, with 

 a narrow black streak, just as in the female of this species. 



Knowing the little authority that is often to be placed on M. Les- 

 son's figures, I suspect it is the figure of a pale or perhaps bleached 

 specimen of a female P. orientalis, in which some fold of the pouch, 

 probably produced by bad stuffing, has been mistaken by the artist 

 for the scrotum of a male, 



5. Cuscus Celebensis. 



Ears produced beyond the fur, naked internally. Male and female 

 alike, ashy-grey, grizzled with silvery hairs ; the nape and the upper 

 part of the middle of the back blacker, but without any distinct 

 dorsal streak. 



Cuscus Celebensis, Brit. Mus. 

 Hah. Celebes. 



We have of the species — 



1 . Young animal, from the island of Macassar ; procured from 

 Mr. A. R. Wallace in 1851. 



