°EC 13 1899 



VIAGGIO DI LAMBERTO LORIA 



NELLA PAPUASIA ORIENTALE 



XX. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW CUSCUSES (PHALANGER) 



OBTAINED BY DR. LORIA IN BRITISH NEW GUINEA 



BY OLDFIELD THOMAS 



Among the large collection of mammals obtained by Dr. L. Lo- 

 ria in British New Guinea , of which I was privileged to give 

 an account in the Annali, besides some specimens of the ordi- 

 nary Phalanger orientalis , were six skins from the district of 

 the Upper Vanapa River. These six skins, of which three pre- 

 sented one form of coloration and three another, were supposed 

 to represent further examples of the many variations of Phalanger 

 orientalis, and were entered as such in my list of the collec- 

 tion ( r ). 



Now however, in connection with the working out of some 

 Louisiade Cuscuses sent home by Mr. Albert Meek, the two 

 specimens in the British Museum from the Loria collection have 

 been re- examined, and their skulls extracted, the result being 

 that 1 find that they represent two different species , neither 

 being Ph. orientalis. 



The first may be called, by desire of Dr. Loria, in honour 

 of Donna Carmelita de Rossi. 



1. Phalanger carmelitae, sp. n. — A Cuscus allied to Ph. orien- 

 talis, but the skull smaller and with a differently shaped inter- 



(') Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) XVIII, p. 620, 1897. 



