PHALANGISTA (Cm) ORIENTALIS. 
Yalentyns Plmlanger. 
Didelphis oriental!*. Pallas, Miscellanea Zoologica, p. 59. 1760. 
“ “ Sciirrber, Saugethierc Hi. p. 550, Tab. clii. 1778. 
Phalangitta ru/a et alba. Gkokf. Catal. du Mus. 
“ rufa. Di:sm. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. tom. xxv. p. 473. 1818. 
Cuscut albu*. Lesson et Garnot, Voynge de laCoquille; Zoologie, 
tom. i. p. 158, Atlas, PI. 6. 
Phalangiita cavifrons. Temminck, Monogr. de Mammal, t. i. p. 17. 1827. 
“ Wagner, in Schreb. Saug. Suppl. 109-110 Heft, 
p. 73. 1842. 
Ouscus orientalis. Gray, List of the Mammalia in the British Museum, 
p. 84. 1843. 
Ears naked internally : forehead concave ; fur dense, and some¬ 
what silky: male white ; female of a pale reddish brown, 
and with a longitudinal dusky mark on the back. 
Inhabits Amboyna, Banda, Timor, and New' Ireland. 
