620 CLASS XVII. 



Antechinus minutissimus GOULD Mamm. of Austr. iv. PL 4, from the East 

 of Australia (4$" long, of which the tail makes one half; the smallest 

 species of the order) &c. These species, with a tail covered sparingly by 

 short hairs, form the genus Antechinus MAC LEAT. In some the tail is 

 very thick at the base, especially in the males ; they form the genus Poda- 

 brus GOULD. 



Dasyurus G-EOFFR. (excl. of some species). Spurious molars 



2 2 4 4 



5 , true -: -r , tuberculate, the last upper small, transverse. 



2i & 4 4 



Posterior feet with clawless hallucar wart, or pollex none. Tail 

 lax, villous throughout. 



Compare GEOFPBOT SAINT-HILAIRE Ann. du Mus. in. pp. 353 363, 

 and TEMMINOK Monogr. de Mammal. I. pp. 51 72, sur Us Mammif. du 

 genre Dasyure et sur deux genres voisins, les Thylacines et les Phascogales. 



Sp. Dasyurus maculatus GRAY, Viverra maculata SHAW, Dasyurus macrurus 

 GEOFFR., PHILLIP Botany Bay, PL 46, p. 276, PERON et LESUEUR, Voy. aux 

 Terr, austr. PL 33 ; in this species the hind feet have a rudiment of a thumb ; 

 the fur is brown with white spots, which occur also on the tail ; from Van 

 Diemen's Land. In other species the thumb of the hind feet is entirely 

 absent, as in Dasyurus viverrinus (and Das. Maugei GEOFFR. and F. Cuv. 

 Mamm. PL 100), Didelphis viverrina SHAW, PHILLIP 1.1. PL 15, p. 147, 

 WHITE New South Wai. PL 59, p. 285, SCHREB. Sdugeth. Tab. 162 Be, 

 GUR. Icon., Mamm. PL 20, fig. 2 ; New South Wales, Van Diemen's 

 Land; smaller than the preceding, tail unspotted. A larger species with 

 short, large head and short tail has given occasion for the sub-genus 

 Sarcophilus F. Cuv. ; it is the Dasyurus ursinus, Didelphis ursina HARRIS, 

 Linn. Trans. IX. PL 19, fig. 2, named by the English colonists native 

 Devil; it is black with a white patch on the breast between the fore legs, 

 and has a bunch of very long hairs behind the eyes and another above 

 them. 



Thylacinus TEMM., Peracyon GRAY. Incisors even, or the exter- 



g Q 



nal slightly larger ; molars compressed, tricuspidate, spurious ^ 



o o 



4 4 

 true molars - j > the upper with an accessory tubercle internal, 



anterior. Ears short, hairy. Hind feet tetradactylous, with 

 pollex none. Tail moderate, short-furred, thick at the base, some- 

 what compressed at the point. 



Sp. Thylacinus Harrisii TEMM., Didelphis cynocephala HARRIS Transact. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. PL 19, LESSON Centur. Zool. PL 2, Cuv. JR. Ani., id. ill., 

 Mamm. PI. 49, fig. r ; GOULD Mamm. of Austr. in. PI. i, 2, Van Diemen's 

 Land; the tiger or zebra-wolf of the colonists, of the size and form of 

 a wolf, but lower on the legs ; black transverse stripes on the back behind. 



