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Show 220 DR. J. E. GRAY ON AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS. [May 8, stralia, which are interesting as containing some species which have not before been recorded as natives of Australia. HIPPOSIDEROS ALBANENSIS. Black brown ; hair white, with minute black tips ; beneath greyish black, hair nearly one-coloured. Wings from base of shin. Forearm- bone 1| inch long. Hab. North Australia, Port Albany. NYCTOPHILUS GOULDI? Hab. North Australia, Port Albany. DACTYLOPSILA TRIVIRGATA, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 110. f. 1,5; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 121. Var. Tip of the tail white. Hab. Port Albany, North Australia. This animal was originally described from a specimen collected by Mr. Wallace in the Aru Islands. CuSCUS MACULATUS, Var. OCHROPUS. Male. Grey; hair black, with grey tips ; the chin, throat, chest, belly, scrotum, and some spots on the side of the back white; tail yellowish white ; feet yellow. Female. Larger, nearly uniform dark grey ; the hairs black, with short grey7 tips ; chin, chest, and the middle of the belly to the vent white, with a well-defined black streak on each side of the belly; tail yellowish white ; feet pale yellow. Hab. North Australia, Port Albany. A large female in the British Museum, which I described in my paper in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society' under the name of C. maculatus, agrees in many respects with the female from Port Albany. The white on the abdomen is narrow and straight-edged; the dark colour near the white is well marked, but not so distinctly as in those from Port Albany. It chiefly differs from the latter in the feet not being yellow or reddish, which was common to all the three specimens which I have seen from North Australia. The specimen of the two-thirds-grown female, described as Cuscus brevicaudatus, which was brought by Mr. John Macgillivray from Cape York, has a nearly uniform dark-grey fur, with the chin, chest, and underside of the body white. It differs from the adult female of Mr. Coxen's in the white on the under part of the body being wider; and there is no appearance of the broad black streak which margins the wrhite in the specimen from Port Albany. Ihe fore feet are grey like the back, and not yellow as they were in ail the three specimens, which include two males and one female, sent home by Mr. Coxen. HALMATURUS COXENII, sp. nov. (PI. XXV.) Fur brown, minutely grizzled ; the nape and back between the |