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although he pays attention to »the naked line on lower 

 surface very long, about two thirds of the length of the 

 tail", this line occupies in the figure of the male not 

 about two thirds but about five sixth of that length. If the 

 figure of Ph. lemuroides is correct than I believe that this 

 species belongs like the former to the Pseudochirus-grou-p , as 

 the fore-feet demonstrate very clearly , and which has been 

 overlooked in the description, meanwhile Mr. Collett compares 

 his new genus with Trichosurus (having the fore-feet normal). 

 In favour of his new species it is to hope that Mr. Collett 

 will give more accurate accounts about them. The specific- 

 name lemuroides is very unluckly chosen as we have already 

 a DidelpMs [Trichosurus) lemurina Shaw. 



NB. As to Dendrolagus Lumholtzi Collett, I should 

 like to know what difference can be found between this 

 species and Dendrolagus inustus, besides some difference 

 in the coloring of the body , which seems to be of a much 

 paler hue in Collett's specimens. Tlie author states that 

 » skull and dentition seem not to differ in any essential 

 way from that of the Papuan Dendrolagi^ : but as there 

 are differences in the form of the skulls of the species of 

 the Papuan Dendrolagi, quaeritur: with the skull of what 

 Papuan species did he compare his Dendrolagus - skulls V 



2 richosurus vulpecula. 



1792. Didelphis vulpecula Kerr. The animal Kingdom 

 p. 198. 



1800. Didelphis lemurina Shaw. General Zoology. Vol. I. 

 Part 2. p. 487, plate 10. — Didelphis vulpina^hdiw. 

 1. c. p. 503. 



1830 — 31. Phalangista fuliginosa Ogilby. P. Z. S. L. p. 

 135. — Phalangista xanthopus Ogilby. 1. c. p. 135. 



1835. Phalangista canina Ogilby. P. Z. S. L. p. 191. 



1841. Phalangista cuvieri (Gvaj) Waterhouse, in Natura- 

 list's Library ; Marsupiata. p. 268. 



1843. Phalangista ( Trichurus) felina Wagner. Schreber's 



J^otes from tlie Leyden. ]>Xuseum, "Vol. VII. 



