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are of moderate size less than in Dasyurus: the 

 false molars are compressed and pointed : in the 

 upper jaw the foremost false molar is the smallest 

 and the posterior one the largest, but in the lower 

 jaw the posterior one is the smallest. The true 

 molars agree in form with those of Dasyurus. The 

 principal differences therefore, as regards the denti- 

 tion, between Dasyurus and Phascogale consists in 

 there being an extra false molar on each side of the 

 upper and under jaws, in the lateral arrangement of 

 the incisors and the large size of the anterior pair. 

 The Phascogales in all probability feed chiefly upon 

 insects. 



THE THYLACINUS. 



Thylacinus cynocephalus. 

 PLATE V. 



Didelphys cynocephalus, Harris. Linnaean Transactions, ix. 



p. 174, PI. 19. 



Dasyurus cynocephalus, Geoff". Ann. du Mus. xv., p. 304. 

 Thylacinus Harrisii Temminck. Monogr. 

 Nearly equal to a wolf in size ; head like that of a dog ; 



tail rather slender, about half the length of the body ; fur 



short , general colour pale brown ; numerous transverse 



black marks on the back and haunches. 



The ears are rather short, somewhat pointed, and 

 very broad at the base, well clothed with hairs both 

 internally and externally ; on the outer side the hairs 

 are coloured like those of the upper part of the head, 

 excepting towards the tip where they are paler ; on 



