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4. ClTSCUS ORIENTALIS. (PI. LXI.) 



Ci/sms Quoyii, Lesson, Mam. 220. 



$ Phalangitta Quoyii, Quoy & Oaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool. 38 

 (t.6??). 



/'. maculata, part., Watcrhouse, Mamm. i. 274. 



P. Papuetuis, Dcsm. Supp. 3-41. 



Brown, grizzled, with a few white-tipped hairs, with a narrow black 

 dorsal streak. 



Ilab. Aru Island. " Female," young. 



5. Bkmdeus Ariel. 



Belidea Ariel, Gould, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1812, x. I I. 



Pelaunu tciureu?, Midler, Verhand. tabl. 



I/////. Aru Island. 



Female adult, with one young in the pouch. 



Dactylopsila. 



Tail elongate, slender, depressed, densely clothed with fur, with 

 the exception of the under side near the tip, which is bald and cal- 

 lous, the end rather bushy. Ears elongate, rounded, bald, except 

 at the outer sides of the base. Pupil round 1 The fore-feet elon- 

 gate ; toes very slender, compressed, very unecpial in length, quite 

 free ; the outer and third or middle toe nearly equal, the second or 

 ring-finger much the longest, the fourth and fifth short, the fifth 

 or innermost the shortest. The hind-feet slender, toes compressed, 

 the two outer toes elongate, nearly ecpial, the two inner about half 

 the length and united. 



Skull (figs. 1, 2, 3) depressed, very broad, with very large expanded 

 zygomatic arches ; the face narrow, compressed and nearly erect on 

 the side, tapering in front ; the palate is narrow, concave. The cutting 

 teeth 4^ I tne upper front elongate, projecting in front, rather taper- 

 ing and truncated at the tip ; the second and third compressed, chisel- 

 shaped, close together and to the front ; the second small, the third 

 larger; the fourjh separated from the others by a small space and 

 placed on the intermaxillary suture, compressed, curved rather like 

 a canine; the lower front very long, projecting in front, carved, 

 rather tapering at the tip ; the second, third and fourth small, trun- 

 cated, separated from each other, the second largest clo-c to the 1 > : t - . ■ 

 of the front tooth ; the third small, separated from the second by a 

 small space; the fourth very small, far from the other; ami at the 

 base of the front edge of the first grinder, in the space between the 

 third and fourth on the right side of the jaw, i- a cavity which 

 appears to have been filled with a tooth like the third one, bnl 

 there is no appearance of the tooth or cavity on the other side. 

 Canines?] » upper small, compressed, conical, tapering like, bnl 



Smaller than, what I hare called the hinder cutting teeth (fig 

 Grinders '-\ small, in two nearly straight line-; parallel to each 



