CATALOGUE OP MAMMALS PROM NEW GUINEA. 



looks like a specimen of this species intermediate between the ashy 

 and spotted variety, being ashy with darker obscure spots. 



Chrysorrhos would perhaps be the better name for this species, 

 because all I have seen have a yellow rump and base of the tail ; but 

 some are not spotted. 



2. CUSCUS ORIENTALIS. 



2 6 Phalangista cavifrons, Temm. Monog. i. 17. 



? <3 Cuseus orientalis, Gray, List Mamm. B.M. 84 ; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1858, t. 61. 



$ <S Phalangista {Cuseus) orientalis, Waterh. Mamm. i. 279. 



c? Coescoes, Valentyn, Omst. in Amboyna, iii. 272. 



Phalanger, Penn. Quadr. ii. 27. 



cj Didelphis orientalis, Pallas, Misc. Zool. 59 ; Schreb. Saugth. 

 iii. 550. t. 152. 



d Cuseus Amboinensis, Lacep. 



c? ^Phalangista alba, Geoff. Cat. Mus. 



S Cuseus albus, Lesson & Garnot, Voy. Coq. Zool. i. 158. t. 6. 



S Balantia orientalis, Illiger, Prodr. 78. 



$ Phalangista rufa, Geoff. Cat. Mus. ; Desm. N. D. H. N. xxv. 

 473. 



$ Phalanger, female, Buffon, H. N. xiii. t. 10. 



Cuseus Quoyii, Lesson, Mamm. 226. 



Phalangista Quoyi, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, Zool. 58. t. 6 ? ?; 

 Temm. Mon. Mamm. i. 17. 



Phalangista Papuensis, Desm. Mamm. Supp. ii. 541 ; Bull. Sci. 

 Nat. iii. 64. 



Phalangista {Cuseus) maculata, part., Waterhouse,Mamm. i. 275. 



1 Cuseus albus, Lesson, Voy. Coq. t. 6, c? ? 



Ears produced beyond the fur, naked internally ; forehead con- 

 cave. Male white. Female pale reddish-brown, with a darker 

 longitudinal streak ; skull with a narrow concave forehead ; grinders 

 moderate. 



Hab. New Guinea ; Aru Island ( Wallace). 



a. Adult male, from New Ireland, procured from M. Verreaux of 

 Paris ; said tp have come from one of the expeditions. Pure white ; 

 throat yellow ; feet nearly bald. 



b. A nearly adult male, from the old collection, said to have come 

 from Amboyna. White. 



c. Young male 1 Uniform pale brownish-yellow ; throat, chest 

 and belly whiter. From island of Waygeroo ; procured from M. Ver- 

 reaux of Paris. 



d. Adult female : ashy-brown, glistened with silvery ; throat, 

 chest and belly pure white ; back with a narrow uniform longitudinal 

 streak. This is sent as Cuseus Quoyii, Lesson, Mam. 220; Ph. 

 Papuensis of Desmarest,"Supp. The figure of M. Gaimard's animal 

 in the ' Voyage of the Uranie,' t. 6, is more like a variety of C. ursi- 

 nus ; but the description agrees with our animal. 



e.. Young female, from the island of Waygeroo ; procured from 

 M. Verreaux. 



