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Genus i6. Acrobates. 



Acrobates Desm., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, p. 405. Type 

 Didelphis ! pygmcea Shaw. 

 Cercoptenus Glog., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., 1841, p. 85. 



23. Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw). 



Didelphis! pygmcea Shaw, Zool. New Holl., i, 1794, p. 5, pi. 11. 

 Voluccella pygmcea Bechst., in Penn. AUgem. Uebers. vierf. Thiere, 



II, 1800, pp. 352, 686. 

 Phalangista pygmcza E. Geoff., Cat. Mus. Paris, 1803, p. 151. 

 Acrobates pygm^us Desm., Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxv, 181 7, 



p. 405. 

 Petaurista pygmcea Gray, Griff. Anim. Kingd., v, 1827, p. 200. 

 Petaurus pygmcsus Less., Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, p. 289. 

 Dromicia frontalis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i, 1887, 



p. 1134. 

 Pigmy Flying Phalanger. 



I. Adult — P. New South Wales. Ward's Nat. Scien. Establ., 



Rochester, N. Y. 



Subfamily IL Phascolarctinae. 



Genus 17. Phascolarctus. 



Phascolarctus Blainv., Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816, p. 116. 

 Type (Lipurus cinereus Goldfuss auct., 181 9!) 

 Lipurus Goldf., Schreb. Saugth., 1817, pis. clv, Aa, Ab. (nee 



Illig., 181 1.) 

 Morodactylus Goldf., Handb. Zool., 11, 1820, p. 445. 



24. Phascolarctus cinereus (Goldfuss). 



Lipurus cinereus Goldf., Isis, 1819, p. 274. 



Morodactylus cinereus Goldf., Zool. 11, 1820, p. 445. 



Phascolarctus fuscus Desm., Mamm., i, 1820, p. 276. 



Phascolarctus koala Gray, Griff. Anim. Kingd., 1827, p. 205. 



Phascolarctus flindersi Less., Man. Mamm., 1827, p. 221. 



Phascolarctus cinereus Fisch., Syn. Mamm., 1829, p. 285. 

 Koala. 



I. Adult — P. Victoria, Australia. Ward's Nat. Scien. Establ., 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



