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some distance behind the postorhital processes. Temporal crests 

 large and very early developed. 



Upper premolars evenly increasing in size backwards. Lower 

 p. larger than p.^ Upper molars increasing in size backwards to 

 the third, lower ones to the fourth. 



1. Didelphys marsupialis*. 

 a. Didelphys marsupialis, Tar. tjTpica. 



Philander maximua orientalis, Seba, Thesaurus, i. p. 64, pi. xxxix. 



(animal) (1734). 

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Linn. Natwrs. i. p. 388 (1778) ; Erxl. Syst. M. A. p. 73 (1777) ; 



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i. p. 105 (1789) ; Kerr, Linn. An. K. p. 191 (1792) ; Lonnd. Zool. 



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i. p. 65 (1806) ; Blumenb. Abbild. nat. Gegenst. pi. liv. (animal) 



(1810) ; m. Prodr. S. M. p. 76 (1811) ; G. Fisch. Zoogn. ii. p. 576 



(1813) ; III. Abh. Ak. Berl. 1811, p. 107 (1815) ; G. Cuv. B. A. 



i. p. 173 (1817) ; Schinz, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 251 (1821) ; Wied, 



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Mamm. p. 186 (1842). 

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 Didelphis caicinophaga, Bodd. Elench. Anim. i. p. 77 (1785) ; 



G. Cuv. Tabl. EUm.-p. 124 (1798). 

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An. k. p. 195 (1792); Bonnd. Zool. Beytr. i. p. 352 (1792); 



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(1806) ; III. Abh. Ak. Berl. 1811, p. 107 (1815) ; Lesm. N. IHct. 



d'H. N. (2) ix. p. 422 (1817) ; id. Mamm. i. p. 255 (1820) ; 



Besmoul. Bid. Class. d'H. N. v. p. 490 (1824); F. Cuv. Bents 



Mamm. p. 73, pi. xxiii. c (teeth) (1825) ; Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. 



K. V. p. 187 (1827) ; Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. p. 32, pi. v. (skull & 



skeleton) (1827); Less. Man. Mamm. p. 210 (1827); Bemi. Bict. 



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p. 64 (1838) ; id. Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm. xi. p. 85 (1841) ; 



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(1846) ; Cdbanis, Schomb. Brit. Guiana, iii. p. 777 (1848) ; G. Cuv. 



Anat. Comp. ii. pis. 174-176 (myology) (1849); Burm. Thiere 



Bras. i. p. 129 (1854) ; Gerv. H. N. Mamm. ii. p. 286 (1856) ; 



Burm. Erl. Faun. Bras. p. 66, pi. iv. (animal), pi. v. fig. 2 & pi. vi. 



u,. Face without, or with indistinctly defined, black and 



white markings Var. typica. 



b. Face with sharply defined black and white mark- 

 ings Var. azarcB, p. 328. 



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