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inferior incisors ore followed by three small teeth; thus 
differing from the adults of other species of Cuscus , where 
there arc but two small teeth on cither side of the lower jaw, 
behind the great canines. 
The dimensions of the skull, figs. 7,’ 8, and 9, Plate l of 
Temminek’s Monograph, are as follows: — 
Inches. Lines. 
Totallength of skull . . ... 3 5 
Width .2 2f 
tl between orbits . 0 6J 
Length of nasal bones . . 1 3] 
Width of ditto behind.0 5 1 
41 “ in front . 0 3$ 
Total length of palate . 1 11 § 
Length of posterior palatine openings . 0 9§ 
From apex of intermaxillary bones to principal 
premolar ... . ... ... 0 10J 
Length of principal premolar and four true 
molars, taken together .0 1 lj 
In a specimen forming part of the Zoological Society’s 
collection, the upper parts of the body are of a pale ashy 
brown colour, and the head rusty yellowish ; the under parts 
dirty yellowish white : a deep brown line runs along the top of 
the head, and extends nearly the whole length of the hack ; 
woolly fur. like that of die body, covers about five inches of 
the upper surface of the tail, and terminates in a point ; 
on the under surface it is less extended by about two inches ; 
the rest of the tail is naked. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from nose to tail . 17 0 
“ of ear . 0 G 
“ of tail . 13 0 
Of two stuffed specimens in the British Museum, one is 
perfeedy white ; die other, which is young, is of a pale rusty 
brown colour: neither have any mark on the hack, and they 
are, therefore, both probably males. 
