SUBCLASS II. METATHERIA. . 



Order II. Marsupialla. Marsupials. 



Family I. Didelphyidse. Opossums. 

 Genus 3. Mariiiosa. 



Marmosa Gray, Lond. Med. Repos., xv., 182 1, p. 308. Type Di- 



delphis! murina Linnaeus. 

 Micoweus Less., Tabl. Regn. Anim., 1842, p. 186. 

 Asagis Glog., Hand-u. Hilfsb. Naturg., i, 1841, p. 82. 

 Notagogus Glog., Hand-u. Hilfsb. Naturg., i, 1841, p. 82. 

 Thylamys (sic) Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, p. loi. 

 GrymcBomys Burni.,Syst. Uebers. Thiere Bras., i, 1854, p. 135, 

 Microdidelphis I Burm., Erlaut. Faun. Bras., 1856, p. 83, Taf. xiv, 



fig. 2, XV, figs. I, 2. 

 Cuica Liais, Climats, G^ol., Faun, et Geog., Botan, Br^sil, 1872, 



p. 427. 



3. Marmosa murina (Linnaeus). 



Didelphis! murina Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 55. 



Didelphis! dorsigera Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 55. 



Didelphys cayopoUin Schreb., Saugth., in, 1778, p. 544, pi. 



CXLVIII. 



Didelphis! guianensis Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingd., 1792, p. 194. 

 Didelphis! impavidaTschudi , Faun. Peruana, 1844, p. 149, pi. ix, 

 Didelphys musculus Cab., Schomb. Brit. Guiana, in, 1848, p. 778. 

 Marmosa murina Elliot, Manim. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 



F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 5. Zool. Ser. Id. Check-L. 



Mamm. N. Amer. Cont. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., vi, 



1905, p. 2. Zool. Ser. 

 Murine Opossum. Tlacuazin Ration in Guatemala. 



1. Adult — P. Honduras. Ward's Nat. Scien. Establ., Rochester, 



N. Y. 



2. Adult — Pres. Central America. Mrs. J. A. Tomhagen. 



fi. .MaTinosa inuTiiui nieccicana Merriam. 



Marmosa murina mexicana Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 

 1897, p. 44. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. 



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