Much to our regret we overlooked the description of a 
new species of hairy-nosed Wombat published by Mr. C. W. 
de Vis in the Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. 5, 
p- 14, 1900. Mr. de Vis’ description is based upon two 
entire specimens and a skull secured at St. George, on the 
Moonie River, in South-eastern Queensland, close to the New 
South Wales border. Externally it is indistinguishable from 
the South Australian species, Phascolomys latifrons, but Mr. 
de Vis, as the result of certain cranial peculiarities, regards 
it as distinct from the latter. In the collection of the 
National Museum, Melbourne, we have three skins, a stuffed 
specimen, and skulls of a hairy-nosed Wombat from Deniliquin, 
in the southern part of New South Wales, close to the 
Victorian border. One of us,* since this paper has been in 
print, has recorded these under the name of P. latifrons, thus 
widely extending the distribution of the species. In regard 
to the proportions of the skull, the shortness of the frontals, 
the pronounced ramification of the naso-frontal suture, and 
the backward cuneiform extension of the same, our Deniliquin 
specimen agrees to a large extent with those of Mr. de Vis, 
for which he has proposed the name of Phascolomys gillespiet, 
but we feel considerable doubt as to whether either the 
Queensland or the New South Wales form is specifically 
distinct from P. latifrons. 
* J. A. Kershaw. Victorian Naturalist, vol. 26, p. 118, 1909 
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