38 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 

 CARNIVORA. 



I suppose there is but little doubt that the Dingo is a compara- 

 tively late arrival in Australia. The Bass Straits were very 

 much as they are at present, and the Dingo had no means, or 

 need, of crossing them. On the mainland his rivals, the Thyla- 

 cine and the Tasmanian Devil, early became extinct before him. 

 They have survived in Tasmania, though the progress of the 

 white man threatens their extinction. 



MARSUPIALIA. 



Dasyurid.e. 



s. 



S.W. N.W. N.E. 



Phascologale. 



P. flavipes, Waterh. 



(var. typica, B.M.C.) 

 P. calura, Gould - 

 P. penirillata, Shaw 

 P. swainsonU Waterh. 

 P. minima, Geotfr. 



Sminthopsis. 



S. murina, Waterh. 



6". leu opus, Gray 



*S. crassicaudata, Gould 



Antechinomys. 



A. la?iigera, Gould 



Dasyurus. 



D. geoffroyi, Gould 

 D. viverrinus, Shaw 

 D. maculatus, Shaw 



TlIYLACINUS. 



T. cynocephalus, Fischer 



Sarcophilus. 



S. ursinus. F. Cuv. 



