2i6 Mr. 0. Thomas on 



XXYI. — O71 some Queensland Plialangeridaj. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the Britisli Museum.) 



'J^HE Queensland representatives of the Koala and the large 

 black Flying-Phalanger have long been known to me as not 

 quite the same as their New South Wales allies, but it is 

 only recently that material justifying detailed examination 

 has been received by the British Museum. Thanks to the 

 Godman Exploration Fund examples of both have now 

 arrived, and the points of difference may be noted. 



Commencing with the Koala, the Queensland form may 

 be described as 



Pliascolarctos cinereus adustus, subsp. n. 



Smaller than New South Wales and Victoria cinereus^ the 

 skull shorter in each sex. Fur shorter, hairs on withers 

 about 16 mm. in length. General colour above of anterior 

 back more or less strongly suffused with dull rufous or tawny, 

 true cinereus being greyish or greyish brown on the back, 

 without, or with but little, tawny sufJ-'usion. Ears far less 

 thickly hairy, the inner surface almost naked. Under surface 

 lighter, the prominent groin-patches rather browner and less 

 rufous. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body 600 mm. ; hind foot 97 ; ear 78. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 138 ; zygomatic breadth 80 ; 

 combined length of upper molars 30. A female skull has the 

 molar series 28 mm. in length. 



Hah. Queensland, extending as far north as Inkerman, in 

 S. lat. 19° 30'. Type from O Bil Bil, near Mundubbera, 

 460'. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 22. 12. 29. 27. Original 

 number 36. Collected 5th February, 1922, by T. Y. Sherrin. 

 Presented by the Godman Exploration Fund. 



This animal is more suffused with rufous than the greyish 

 one of New South Wales and Victoria, and is also somewhat 

 smaller, the difference being particularly noticeable in the 

 females. 



The Taguan Flying-Phalangees. 



Some years ago the British Museum received from the 

 neighbourhood of Bundaberg, South Queensland, a small 



