PERAMELID&. 19 
variable number of white patches on the neck, shoulders, rump, 
and chest, the pectoral patch only being constant. Ears hairy, 
with well-marked basal tufts. Soles naked, coarsely granulated, 
and without pads ; a small transversely-striated pad at the extreme 
tip of each toe. Tail short, uniformly thickly hairy. Mamme ? 
Dimensions.—Head and body about twenty-eight inches ; tail 
about twelve inches. 
Habitat.—Tasmania. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 259, pl. xxiv. fig. 2 (right 
molar*); Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pl. i: 
Genus VII.—THYLACINUS, Vemminck (1827). 
Back transversely banded with black. Size large; form wolf-like. 
Muzzle long and slender. Ears of medium size. Tail well 
developed, short-haired. Feet markedly digitigrade. Toes sub- 
equal, with short, thick, conical claws. Hallux absent. Pouch 
opening backwards. Mamme four. Marsupial bones rudimentary. 
12.3.4 q 1 1.0.3.4 i, oo 
Denistion.—I. 75, , C. 3, P. Tam M- gag x 2=46 
Habits.—Terrestrial ; carnivorous. 
Note.—Thylacinus speleus, Owen, a fossil form of larger size 
than the living representative is also known from the Wellington 
Caves and the Queensland Pleistocene. 
1. THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS, Harris, sp. (1808). 
Tasmanian Wolf. 
Fur short, close, and crisp. General color above pale finely 
grizzled gray- ‘brown, with a faint yellowish or tawny tinge ; below 
slightly paler. Round the eyes, edges and base of the ears "nearly 
white. Posterior part of back with about sixteen blackish-brown 
transverse bands, descending on the rump nearly to the knee. 
Soles naked, coarsely granulated, without defined pads. Tail 
with indistinct crests above and below, its tip blackish. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about forty-four inches ; tail 
about twenty-one inches. 
Habitat.—Tasmania. 
References.—Thomas, B.M. Catal. p. 255, pl. xxiv. fig. 1 (right 
nolar®); Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pls. lili. (head), liv. 
Family I1.—PERAMELIDA. 
Bandicoots. 
Hind limbs decidedly the longer. Fore feet with two or gener- 
ally three of the middle digits long, and clawed, the others rudi- 
