198 PHiLANOERID^. 



J.B.Fiseh. Sxjn. Mamm. p. 276 (1829); Less. H. N. Mamm. 



{Compl. Buff.) iv. p. 462 (1830); Wagn. Schr. 8iiug. Supp. in. 



p. 72 (1843; ; Schinz, Syn. Mamm. i. p. 525 (1844). 

 Balantia maculata, Kaup, Thierr. i. p. 241 (1835). 

 Phalangiata (Ciiacua) chryaorrhos, Waterh. Jard. Nat. lAbr., Mamm. 



xi. p. 261 (1841) ; id. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 271 (1846). 

 Phalangista (Ouscua) maculata, Waterh. Jard. Nat. Lihr., Mamm. 



xi. p. 262 (1841) ; id. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 274 (1846) ; Peters S,- 



Doria, Ai^n. Mus. Genov. xvi. p. 681 (1881). 

 Pbialaiigista (Pseudocheirus) nudicaudata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1849, 



p. 110. 

 Pseudochirus nudicaudataa, MaegUliway, Voy. ' Rattlesnake,' i. p. 129 



(1852). 

 Phalangista nudicaudata, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. v. p. 276 (1855) ; 



Gieh. Sdug. p. 699 (1859). 

 Ouscua bi-evicaudatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 102 ; Gould, Mamm. , 



Amtr. i. pi. xxi. (animal, $ ) (1860) ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. 



B. M. p. 123 (1862) ; Krefft, Mamm. Austr. text to pi. vii. p. 2 

 (1871) ; Bams. P. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. ii. p. 12 (1878). 

 Cuscua (Eucuacus) brevicaudatu?, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 316. 

 Ouscua (Spilocuscus) chrysorrhous and maculatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 



1861, pp. 317, 318. 

 Ouscus maculatua, var. ocbropUs, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1866, p. 220. 

 Ouacus chrysorrhous, var. goldiei. Bams. P. Linn. Soc. N, S. W. i. 

 p. 395 (1877), iii. p. 243 (1879). 



Spotted Ctjsctjs. 



Size large ; females attaining a greater size than males. Fur 

 soft, thick and woolly. General colour mottled white, black, and 

 red in very various combinations ; females generally grey and black, 

 not spotted with white. Top of muzzle above rhinarium thinly 

 hairy, not naked as in Ph. ursimis. Ears (PL XXI. fig. 2) thickly 

 covered inside and out with soft woolly hairs, similar in character, 

 and usually in colour, to those of the crown. Back and limbs 

 coloured as described below. Belly white, generally tinged with 

 yellow or rufous ; in the male passing gradually into the colour of 

 the back, but in the female sharply separated from the dark- 

 coloured flanks, especially on the two sides of the pouch, where a 

 sharp black line runs along the edge of the darker colour. (In an 

 erythristic female specimen, however, the belly is similar to that of 

 the male.) Tail furry like the body for from one half to three 

 fourths its length above, and from one third to one half below, its 

 colour on the furry portion nearly invariably, both in males and 

 females, deep yellow, but sometimes tinged with greyish or white. 



The colour of the upper surface and limbs seems to have been 

 originally that only now found in the female, viz., a deep hoary 

 grey, paler on the head (where it is sometimes replaced by rufous), 

 forequarters, btm limbs ; darker, sometimes quite black, across the 

 lumbar region, a darkness that is usually strongly contrasted with 

 the yellow of the base of the tail. In rare cases, however, the 

 female, like the male, is completely affected by erythrism, the 

 lumbar region and the hands and feet being then deep rufous, and 

 the head, forequarters, sides, and belly very pale ruibus white, or 



