105 



in the ' Voyage of the Uranie,' t. G, is more like a variety of C. ttrsi- 

 nus ; but the description agrees with our animal. 



5. Young female, from the island of Waygeroo ; procured from 

 M. Verreaux. 



6. Young female, from Aru Islands; procured from Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace. These two only differ from the adult specimen in the 

 silvery hairs of the back being rather more abundant, but they seem 

 to be deciduous. 



Phalungista Papuensis of Desm. was described from a female 

 specimen collected by M. Gaimard, which was afterwards deseribed 

 as Ph. Quoi/i. In Quoy and Gaimard, ' Zoology to the Voyage of 

 the Uranie,' it is described as having a darker dorsal line, which 

 rather widens over the loins, which at once shows that it must be the 

 female of P. oriental is. 



Mr. Waterhouse has referred both these names without any com- 

 ment as a synonym of P. maculata, misled probably by Ilerr 

 Temminck, who (Mon. Mamm. i. 18) states it to be a young P. ma- 

 culata — evidently overlooking the dorsal stripe. 



Lesson, in the ' Voyage of the Coquille,' figures a male animal as 

 Cuscus ulbus, t. 6, from Port Praslin, New Ireland, which is white, 

 with a narrow black streak, just as in the female of this species. 



Knowing the little authority that is often to be placed on M. Les- 

 son's figures, I suspect it is the figure of a pale or perhaps bleached 

 specimen of a female P. orientalis, in which some fold of the pouch, 

 probably produced from bad stuffing, has been mistaken by the 

 artist for the scrotum of a male. 



4. Cuscus Celebensis (PI. LXIL). 



Ears produced beyond the fur, naked internally. Male and female 

 alike, ashy-grey, grizzled with silvery hairs ; the nape and the upper 

 part of the middle of the back blacker, but without any distincl 

 dorsal streak. 



Cuscus Celebensis, Brit. Mus. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



We have of the species — 



1. Young animal, from the island of Macassar; procured from 

 Mr. J. It. Wallace in 1851. 



2. Adult male and female, from San Cristoval, Soloman Group 

 of Islands, Dec. 1855. Presented by John Macgilliv ra\ , Esq. and 

 F. M. Kayner, Esq. in 1850'. 



