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8. — Cuscus brevicaudatls. Gray. 



Phalangista nudicaudata, Gould, P.Z.S., 1849, p. 110. 

 Only one specimen, a young male. It is of a light cream 

 color or white, with the face yellowish, and a tinge of yellow on 

 the back ; the body and legs irregularly blotched with brown, 

 the tips of the hair on most of the brown spots on the back 

 yellowish, hands and feet tinged with yellow, the tail comparatively 

 short ; total length, 25 inches to the tip of the tail ; the tail, 10 

 inches ; from the nose to anterior base of the ear, 2*7 inches; to 

 the eye, 1*1 inches ; width of the two lower incisors together, 0'3 

 inch ; skull, 3'2 inches. 



9. — Phalangista pinnata. 



Adults and young of this pretty species were obtained on the 

 Ethel River, New Guinea ; the young resemble the adults ; the 

 white stripe down the forehead, however, is proportionately 

 broader. 



Family PETAURISTID^E. 

 The Flying Phalangers. 



10. — Belideus Ariel, Gould, Mamm. Austr. Vol. I., pi. 27. 



This species was obtained at Katow, and is also found at Port 

 Moresby. Its range extends from Cape Y"ork over the whole of 

 New Guinea, as far as is yet known, and I have examined 

 authentic specimens from New Britain without finding any 

 differences between them. I believe this is the only species of 

 this genus yet found in New Guinea. 



Fam. PERAMELID^E. 



Bandicoots. 

 Perameles macroura var. torosds. 



The Tawny-Throated Bandicoot. 



Fur rather long, spiny, pencilled with deep yellow and black 

 on all the upper parts and sides of the body, lower part of the 

 sides, and all the under parts whitish except the chin, the throat 



