24 é PERAGALE. 
2. PERAGALE LAGoTIS, Reid, sp. (1836). 
Common Rabbit-Bandicoot. 
Size large ; form light and delicate. Fur very long, soft, and 
silky. General color above fawn-gray ; below white. Cheeks 
and bases of ears white or pale fawn. Ears nearly naked, their 
edges and the anterior part of the backs thinly clothed with pale 
brown hairs. An indistinct darker vertical band on the sides of the 
rump. Outer sides of the fore and backs of the hind limbs dark 
gray grizzled with white ; remainder of limbs white. Soles almost 
entirely thickly hairy. Tail of moderate length, thickly hairy 
throughout, the basal third colored like the body, the middle third 
black or dark brown, the terminal third white and prominently 
crested above. 
Dimensions.—Head and body about eighteen inches; tail about 
nine inches. 
Habitat.—South and West Australia. 
References.—Thomas, B. M. Catal. p. 223, pl. xxii. fig. 1 (hull ); 
Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pl. vii. 
Suborder II.—Diprotodontia. 
Normal characters.—Incisors three in the upper, one in the 
lower jaw, the latter long and powerful. Canines usually small, 
much smaller than the incisors, almost invariably absent below. 
Molars bluntly tuberculate or ridged. 
Frugivorous, graminivorous, phytophagous, herbivorous, rhizo- 
phagous ; rarely insectivorous and mellivorous. 
Exceptions.—One upper incisor only in each ramus in Phasco- 
lomys ;, second lower incisor present in Phalanger, Trichoswrus, 
Gymnobelideus, Dromicia, Distechurus, and Acrobates ; occa- 
sionally in Pseudochirus and Petauroides ; second and third in 
Dactylopsila ; second and occasionally third in Petawrus. 
Family I1I.—PHASCOLOMYID/i. 
Wombats. 
Form stout and clumsy. Muzzle short and broad. Limbs 
subequal, very thick and strong. Fore feet with five subequal 
digits, each with a stout claw. Hind feet with the hallux short 
and clawless ; the other toes with long, curved claws; the second 
and third witha slight tendency to syndactyly. Tail rudimentary. 
Stomach simple. Ccecum present. Pouch present. Mamme ? 
Genus ].—PHASCOLOMYS, JZ. Geoffroy (1803). 
Characters as those of the family. 
