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»valle existant entre les incisives et les raolaires; oreilles 

 » velues a leur intérieur , comme a l'extérieur ; les ongles 

 »très-petits. Patrie. Les Moluques." 



This is the first and at the same time a very exact des- 

 cription of a male specimen. 



Quoy and Gaimard described and figured a male ^) from 

 Waigeou, s. n. Phalancjista Quoy (Desmarest had descri- 

 bed the same specimen under the name Phalangista pa- 

 puensis) and a younger male from the same island s. n. 

 Phalangista maculata '). 



In »le Voyage de la Coquille" have been described and 

 figured an adult male , s. n. Cuscus maculatus , with a very 

 good figure of its skull and a younger specimen, s. n. 

 Cuscus macrourus (femelle) , both from Waigeou. 



Temminck described the female-stage, s. n. Phalangista 

 chrysorrhos , after two adult specimens from the Moluc- 

 cas , and the mode of coloring in the males , adult and 

 young, s. n. Phalangista maculata^ after individuals from 

 Banda and Amboina. Finally he figured the skull of the 

 fullgrown in several positions, Temminck's figure of the 

 skull of a young Cuscus orientalis, which he called that 

 of a young Cuscus maculatus^ induced Waterhouse to state 

 that in the young of the latter species there are in the 

 lower jaw , between the great incisors and the principal 

 premolar , three small teeth , and in the adult two on 

 either side. As to Cuscus macrourus Lesson et Garnot, 

 Waterhouse says , that it would appear that it resembles 

 the young of C maculatus. 



A female , two-thirds grown , from Cape York and be- 

 longing to the species under consideration has been des- 



1) Kegarding this specimen Mr. Huet of the Paris Museum kindly informs 

 me: »le Phalatigista Quoyi est en mauvais état, mais cependant je suis dis- 

 posé a croire que c'est un male, quoique la peau des testicules soit introu- 

 vable, d'autre part' il n'y a pas apparence de poche et Ton tronve un petit 

 bouton qui me parait être I'enveloppe du penis; pas de renseignements k ce 

 sujet ni sur le plateau ni sur les catalogues." 



2) Mr. Huet writes: «Quant au Phalangista maculata il n'y a aucun doute. 

 C'est bien un male." 



Notes from th.e Leyden M!useu.m, "Vol. "VU. 



