94 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Pseudochirus herbertensis, Collett, Zool. Jahrbuch, vol. ii, 
p. 917 (1887) ; Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 170 
(1888). 
Characters.—Size moderate; fur thick, close, and woolly. 
General colour dark umber-brown; chin brown ; under-parts 
white, or greyish-white, with irregular white patches. Ears 
short. Limbs dark brown, sometimes ringed with white. Hair 
of tail woolly ; from one to three inches of tip of tail white; 
naked portion of under-surface from five to six inches in 
length, coarsely shagreened. Length of head and body about 
14 inches; of tail 13 inches. 
Distribution—Central Queensland, in the Herbert river dis- 
trict. 
This species— the “Uta” of the aborigines—is remarkable for 
the inconstancy of the presence of the white rings on the 
limbs ; the uniformly-coloured variety having been regarded as 
a distinct species, under the name of P. mongan. It is stated 
to inhabit only the very summits of the mountain ranges of the 
Herbert river district, and consequently nothing has been 
ascertained as to its habits, which are, however, doubtless 
like those of the other species. 
III COMMON RING-TAILED PHALANGER. PSEUDOCHIRUS 
PEREGRINUS. 
Didelphis peregrinus, Boddaert, Elench. Animal. ; vol. i., p. 78 
(1785). 
Didelphis caudivolvula, Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingdom, p. 196 
(1792). 
Didelphis nove-hollandiea, Bechstein, Uebers. Vierf. Thiere, 
vol. ii., p. 348 (1800). 
Phalangista convolutor, Schinz, in Cuvier’s Thierreichs, vol. i., 
p. 258 (1821). 
