BY II. H. SCOTT AND CLIVE K. LORD. 8/ 



act of separation, but he makes robusta a flat tusked 



animal, which agrees better with a female than a male 



animal. Now N. tasmanieum _ bter with 



enia than anything yel described, and we are con- 



I thai D \ , d skull, elevated to the type 



of thi was mutilated in th and 



the mutilation masked the real truth a< to its normal 



•: i ui! tire. Tin skull of .V. tasmanieum was recovered in 



thirty-six pie< -. and, when first brought to light, was 



tnutila in: Euovenia outline! In other words, the 



latform was carried away, and was net. dis- 



■ i until ix Wiih-, afterwards. If the figure of that 



skull ( 6 ) i by side with De v 



with a | 

 ■ an i onvei sk\d 1 



ui' .V. fas/, Kii/' 



i rikii generic i I was the 



slender zygomatic arch. Thi- also is a mutilation ( 8) . De 

 Vis did D b 



the zygoma with th \ dmal, and 



'ix' zygoma ■>! thai < r atur* would nol easily mutilate 

 in quil i hat i h cond 



group can. and do — ai D the 



i " I th 

 is had i. en 1 he unmul ilati d z; of the 



roup; henc< we ran understand and appro 

 his position, although ' For in tl. 



b-orbital pin-! ion of th< zygomatic arch 

 i < uinl d and thinned away, 



■iily t no: una of De 



. and u<y. i i pi ive t> ,- t . We I included 



in this second group of Nototheria th Dunense, 



on the grounds that, in our opinion, it really rela 

 Phascolonus. With the clearing up of the Sceparnodon 

 and Phascolonus puzzle, at the baj 3ir E. 



Stirling, the claims of the type jaws of Dunense to any 

 other than that of Phascolonus, became remote, 

 and in the circui wi r move it bo the insertce 



<edis section, that includes Inermis, Dunense, and 

 Sthenomerus. Of this latter we have only one word to 

 and that is — As the real limb bones of the Noto- 

 theria were not correctly r legated to the genus Noto- 

 ■■iii until 1910, and Phascolonian bones were previous- 

 ly usurping their places, we consider tin bones relegated 



*6) Monoiu-apli, Nototheriutn tasmanieum, PI, I 



(7) Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. 4. 1887. 



(8) The malar is stripped riirht out, leaving only the maxillary 



font, and the •/ . ocess of the squamosal behind — 



ntly driven up on to the skull -o as to expose its lower edge. 



