266 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
to those of existing Wombats, and, according to De Vis, the 
same is true with regard to the upper ones. 
Distribution—Queensland, New South Wales, and South 
Australia. 
GENUS SCEPARNODON. 
Sceparnodon, Owen, Phil. Trans., 1884, p. 245. 
I. SCEPARNODON RAMSAVI.! 
Sceparnodon ransayt, Owen, loc. cit. ; Lydekker, Proc. Royal 
Soc., vol. xlix., p. 60 (1891); De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
New S. Wales, ser. 2, vol. viii., p. 11 (1893). 
This genus and species were established on the evidence 
of large chisel-like incisor teeth, remarkable for their breadth, 
flatness, and thinness, some examples being fully an inch and 
a half in width, and not more than a quarter of an inch in 
thickness. In a clay deposit at Bingera, on the frontier of 
New South Wales, numbers of these teeth are found separately, 
and likewise numbers of the jaws of Phascolonus gigas without 
the incisors. Seeing that there were no molar teeth known 
which could be assigned to Sceparnodon, while the upper 
incisors of Phascolonus were unknown, the author contended 
that the remains described under these two names pertained 
to one and the same animal. Recently, however, Mr. De Vis 
has stated that he has obtained the upper incisor of Phascolonus, 
which is quite different from the teeth of the Sceparnodon. If 
his determination be certain, the two genera must be distinct, 
although there still remains the difficulty that no molar teeth 
are known which can be assigned to the latter. If, however, 
his identification is to be accepted, it appears, as already men- 
tioned, very doubtful if Phascolonus gigas can be generically 
separated from Pascolomys. 
Distribution—Queensl-nd, New South Wales, and South 
Australia. 
