﻿258 Allen's naturalist's library. 



viii. macropus minor. 



Stheniirus -minor, Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 353. 



Macropus 7}iinor, Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pt. 

 v., p. 218 (1887). 



Distinguished from the last species by its considerably 

 smaller dimensions, the shorter last premolar, and the propor- 

 tionately narrower upper molars. 



Distribution.— New South Wales and Queensland. 



GENUS TRICLIS. 



TricHs, De Vis, Proc. R. Soc, Queensland, ser. 2, vol. iii., p. 

 8 (1888). 



I. TRICLIS OSCILLANS. 



Trie lis oscil/ans, De Vis, loc. cit. 



Founded on a lower jaw from the superficial deposits of 

 Queensland, which apparently belonged to an animal allied 

 to Hypsipryimiodon, but of much larger dimensions. The 

 fossil agrees with the living form in having the last premolar 

 vertically grooved and inclined outwards, but differs, as it also 

 does from every other member of the present family, in the 

 presence of an additional minute tooth between the last pre- 

 molar and the incisor, this additional tooth probably represent- 

 ing the canine, but being possibly a premolar. In the presence 

 of this tooth Tridis closely connects the Macropodidce with 

 the PhalangeridcB 



FAMILY PHAI.ANGERID^ {supra p. 75). 



In addition to remains of several of the existing representa- 

 tives of the family, certain bones are regarded as indicating 

 the existence of extinct genera and species more or less nearly 

 allied to the living ones ; all such bones having been obtained 



