Total Colourings of Planar Graphs with Large Girth

It is proved that ifGis a planar graph with total (vertex?edge) chromatic number ??, maximum degree ? and girthg, then ??=?+1 if ??5 andg?5, or ??4 andg?6, or ??3 andg?10. These results hold also for graphs in the projective plane, torus and Klein bottle.