150 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
FAMILY DASVYURIDA. THE DASYURES, 
THYLACINES, Etc. 
Limbs subequal ; fore feet with five toes; hind feet with the 
third and fourth toes completely separate, the first (hallux) 
small and clawless, or wanting, and the others of subequal size. 
Tail long, hairy, and non-prehensile. Stomach simple ; intes- 
tine without a blind appendage or czeecum; pouch, when pre- 
sent, opening forwards or downwards. Four pairs of upper, 
and five of lower incisor teeth; and the whole of the dentition 
of a thoroughly carnivorous type, the upper molars being more 
or less triangular in form, and carrying a number of sharp 
cusps. 
This family, which is distributed over Australia and Tasmania, 
New Guinea, and the adjacent islands, exclusive of those of 
the Austro-Malayan region, embraces the only thoroughly car- 
nivorous Australian Marsupials, and likewise the largest repre- 
sentatives of the Polyprotodont subdivision of the order. 
Although all its members subsist on an animal diet, the smaller 
kinds are either wholly or partially insectivorous. None appear 
to be carnivorous. 
As a whole, the Dasyuride may be regarded as among the 
most generalised of all living Marsupials, some of them, and 
more especially the little Banded Anteater, retaining indications 
of affinity with the extinct Jurassic Marsupials of Europe which 
are unknown elsewhere. 
THE THYLACINES. GENUS THYLACINUS. 
Thylacinus, Temminck, Monogr. Mamm., vol. i., p. 60 (1827). 
This genus, together with all the other members of the 
family, with the exception of the Banded Anteater, constitute a 
sub-family (Dasyurine), characterised as follows: ‘Tongue 
