6 CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 
looks like a specimen of this species intermediate between the ashy 
and spotted variety, being ashy with darker obscure spots. 
Chrysorrhos would perhaps be the better name for this species, - 
because all I have seen have a yellow rump and base of the tail ; but 
some are not spotted. 
2. Cuscus ORIENTALIS. 
2 db Phalangista cavifrons, Temm. Monog. i. 17. 
2 db Cuscus orientalis, Gray, List Mamm. rin M. 84; Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1858, t. 61. 
2 & Phalangista ( Cuscus) or ientalis, Waterh. Mamm. i. 279. 
3 Coescoes, Valentyn, Omst. in Amboyna, iii. 272. 
Phalanger, Penn. Quadr. ii. 27. 
3 Didelphis orientalis, Pallas, Misc. Zool. 59 ; Schreb. Siiugth. 
,1112.550..t..152. 
3 Cuscus Amboinensis, Lacép. 
3 Phalangista alba, Geoff. Cat. Mus. ° 5 
3 Cuscus albus, Lesson & Garnot, Voy. Coq. Zool. i. 158. t. 6. 
3 Balantia orientalis, Mliger, Prodr. 78. 
Q Phalangista rufa, Geoff. Cat. Mus.; Desm. N. D. H. N. xxv. 
473. 
.& Phalanger, female, Buffon, H. N. xiii. t. 10. 
Cuscus Quoyii, Lesson, Mamm. 226. 
Phalangista Quoyi, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, Zool. 58. t. 6? ?; 
Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. 17. ; 
Phalangista Papuensis, Desm. Mamm. Supp. ii. 541; Bull. Sei. 
Nat. iii. 64. 
Phalangista (Cuscus) maculata, patt., Water HiD75: 
? Cuscus albus, Lesson, Voy. “Coq. t. 65 8% 
Ears ‘produced beyond the fur, naked internally ; forehead con-, 
cave. Male white. Female pale reddish-brown, with a darker 
longitudinal streak ; skull with a narrow concave forghead ; grinders 
moderate. 
Hab. New Guinea; Aru Island (Wallace). 
a, Adult maie, from New Ireland, procured from M. Verreaux of 
Paris ; said to have come from one of the expeditions. Pure white ; 
threat yellow ; feet nearly bald. 
b, A nearly adult male, from the old collection, said to have come 
from Amboyna. White. 
c. Young male? Uniform pale brownish-yellow ; throat, chest 
and belly whiter. From island’of Waygeroo ; procured from M. Ver- 
reaux of Paris. 
d. Adult female: ashy-brown, glistened -with silvery ; throat, 
chest and belly pure white ; back with a narrow uniform longitudinal 
streak. This is sent as Cistus Quoyiw, Lesson, Mam. 220; PA. 
Papuensis of Desmarest, Supp. The figure of M. Gaimard’s animal 
in the ‘ Voyage of the Uratties t. 6, is more like a variety of C. ursi-- 
nus; but fhe. description agrees eae our animal. 
e. Young female, from the island of Waygeroo; procured Si 
M. Verreaux. 
