120 Analytical Notices of Books. 
To the Phalangista maculata, Desm., are referred specimens of a 
Couscous which the authours had once regarded as the type of a new spe- 
cies, and to which they had given the name of Cuscus chrysocephalus. 
These differ from the individuals previously known by their large size, 
their almost entirely woolly fur, and their colours. They possess the 
small additional false molar in each jaw, which is generally indicative of 
immaturity in the genus to which they belong. But notwithstanding this, 
which, in conjunction with their size, would appear to indicate that they 
were the young of a larger animal than the Cuscus maculatus, MM. Les- 
son and Garnot regard them as belonging to that species, of which they 
consider the specimen figured and described by them to be an individual 
in its complete developement, and ina fine state of fur. It is placed in 
a section of the genus Cuscus, Lacép., * Auriculis brevibus, non dis- 
‘* tinctis, intis pilosis,’? and is thus characterized, ‘* Cuscus major, 
** corpore lanuginoso subalbido, supra maculis aterrimis sparso. Cauda 
** prehensili rubra, tuberculos4. Faciei pilis aureo-fulvis : extremitatibus 
‘© supra brunneo-fuscis.”’ Its length to the root of the tail is twenty-five 
inches, and that of the tail twenty inches, eleven inches of the latter being 
naked : the former dimension, it may be remarked, exceeding in an in- 
dividual with immature dentary characters by no less than seven inches and 
a half that of M. Temminck’s largest adult specimen of his Phalangzsta 
maculata. From the anatomical observations appended we learn that the 
sternum is extremely narrow, being in fact only a slip for the attachment 
of the cartilages of the ribs : the stomach, which is reniform, occupies the 
whole of the epigastric region extending a little into the left hypochon- 
drium; the pyloric valve is thick and fleshy; the duodenwm forms a 
single curve in front of the vertebre ; the small intestines, about nine 
feet and a half in length, join the rectum perpendicularly; and the 
cecumis large, with a vermiform appendage seventeen or eighteen inches 
in length : the liver is divided into five unequal lobes, two of them being 
much larger than the others, and notched; the gall-bladder is large, 
elongated, and placed between the large right lobe and the third in size, 
by which it is hidden: the spleen is small, elongated, and somewhat 
triangular: the kidneys are small, and resemble those of the human 
subject: and the penis is placed behind the scrotum, its glans terminat- 
ing in a pointed prolongation. 
A second species of Cuscus belonging to the same section with the 
