188 PHALAWeEEIDiE. 



printed 383) (1829) ; Less. N. Tahl. R. A.,Mamm. p. 188 (1842) ; 

 Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 82 (1843). 

 Phalangista (Trichosurus) vulpina, Less. IHct. Class. d'H. N. xiii. 



p. 335 (1828); Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 284, pi. ix. fig. 1 



(animal) & xix. fig. 1 (skull) (1846). 

 Balantia vulpina, Wagl. 8yst. Amph. Sdug. p. 25 (1830). 

 Phalangista xanthopus, Ogilb. P. Z. 8. 1831, p. 135 ; Waterh. 



Cat. Mamm. Mus. Z. S. p. 67 (1838) ; id. Jard. Nat. Libr., 



Mamm. xi. p. 269 (1841) ; Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 



(1841); Wagn. Schr. Saug. Supp. iii. p. 77 (1843); Schinz, Syn. 



Mamm. i. p. 529 (1844); Waterh. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 294 



(1846 J. 

 Balantia bougainvillei, Kavp, Thierr. i. p. 240 (1835). 

 Phalangista cuvieri, Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii. p. 401 (1841); 

 Waterh. Jard. Nat. Lihr., Mamm. xi. p. 268 (1841) ; Gray, List 



Mamm. B. M. p. 86 (1843). 

 Trichosurus xanthopus, Less. N. Tahl. R. A., Mamm. p. 189 (1842). 

 Phalangista melanura, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Svpp. iii. p. 81 (1843). 

 Trichosurus yulpinus, Gerv. H. N. Mamm. ii. p. 275 (1855). 

 Phalangista hypoleucus, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. v. p. 273, pi. xxii. 



(animal) (1855). 

 Phalangista vulpecula, Thos. Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) iv. p. 397 (1879) ; 



id. Lncycl. Brit. (9) xviii. p. 728 (1885) ; Coll. Zool. Jahrh. ii. 



p. 910 (1887). 

 Trichosurus vulpecula, J^t. Notes Leyd. Mus. vii. p. 21 (1884)'; id. 



Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. p. 314 (1887). 



CoMMOsf Phaiangee. 



Size comparatively, small in the present, larger in the Tasmanian 

 variety (see p. 190). 



Eur close, thick and woolly. General colour clear grizzled grey. 

 Face pale grey, darker round the eyes and on the sides of the snout. 

 Ears long and narrow, tapering towards their tips, nearly naked 

 inside and terminally outside ; proximal portion outside anteriorly 

 brown, posteriorly white. Whole of back and sides uniform 

 grizzled grey, sometimes markedly suffused with rufous, especially 

 on the forequarters. Chin more or less blackish ; throat, chest, and 

 belly white or dirty yellow, the hairs generally grey basally; a 

 longitudinal patch on the centre of the chest deep rusty red in old 

 specimens, more pronounced in males than in females, and, pre- 

 sumably, indicating the presence of a sternal gland. Outer sides of 

 limbs like back, inner sides like beUy. Hands and feet white, grey, 

 or brown. Tail thick, cylindrical, bushy, its terminal half or two 

 thirds grey, its end black, the extreme tip occasionally white, 

 especially in West- Australian specimens ; naked part below tip 

 extending for from three to six inches, its surface transversely 

 wrinkled, not shagreened. 



Skull smaller and lighter than in the Tasmanian variety or in 

 T. eaninus. Nasals smoothly convex above. Interorbital region 

 narrow, concave along its centre, its edges sharply ridged. Anterior 

 palatine foramina running back to the level of the middle of the 

 canines. Posterior palatal vacuities extending from the back of m.' 



