154 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
naked, without well-defined pads. Body blotched with white. 
Two pairs of premolar teeth; the upper molars, save the last, 
very strong, triangular in form, and much shorter and wider 
than in the preceding genus. 
Like the latter, the genus Savcophilus is now represented 
only by a single Tasmanian species, although a second one, 
which became extinct before the historic period, formerly in- 
habited the mainland of Australia. The affinities of the genus 
appear to be closer with Zhylacinus than with Dasyurus, 
although by many writers the Tasmanian Devil is placed 
among the latter animals. 
I. THE TASMANIAN DEVIL. SARCOPHILUS URSINUS. 
Didelphis ursina, Harris, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. ix., p. 176 
(1808). 
Dasyurus ursinus, Geoffroy, Ann. Muséum, vol. xv., p. 305 
(1810). 
Sarcophilus ursinus, F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm., vol. iv., pt. 
70 (1837); Thomas, Cat. Marsup. Brit. Mus., p. 259 
(1888). 
Characters.—Fur thick and close, consisting largely of soft 
woolly under-fur. General colour black or blackish-brown, 
with a variable number of white patches on the neck, shoulders, 
rump, and chest, the latter being alone constant. Ears hairy, 
with well-marked tufts at the base; soles of feet marked, 
coarsely granulated, and without pads, but a small transversely 
striated pad at the tip of each toe; tail short, and uniformly 
thickly haired. Length of head and body about 28 inches; of | 
tail 12 inches. 
Distribution. — Tasmania. 
Habits.—Like the Thylacine, the Tasmanian Devil, as the , 
animal under consideration, from its ferocity and destructive , 
