178 PHASCOLOMYID^E. TACHYGLOSSID.E. 



Family PHASCOLOMYID.E. 

 Genus PHASCOLOMYS *. 



612. Phascolomys wombat. Per. et Les. Common Wombat. 

 Hob. Tasmania. 



a. Presented by the Acclimatization Society of Victoria, 



March 18, 1863. 



b. Deposited, April 19, 1866. 



c. d. Purchased, Jan. 27, 1868. 



e. Male. Purchased, May 23, 1870. 



/. Female. Presented by James Galbrath, Esq., Sept. 10, 1872. 



613. Phascolomys platyrhinus, O wen. Platyrhine Wombat . 

 Hob. Victoria, Australia. 



a. Presented by the Acclimatization Society of Victoria, 



March 18, 1863. Black variety, described by Mr. Gould 

 as P. niger. 



b. Male; c. Female. Purchased, Jan. 27, 1868. Black variety. 



d. Female. Presented by Dr. Ferdinand von Mueller, 



C.M.Z.S., Sept. 25, 1872. 



614. Phascolomys latifrons, Owen. Hairy-nosed Wombat. 

 Hob. South Australia. 



a. Purchased, July 24, 1862. Specimen figured by Mr. 



Gould (Mamm. Austr. pi. 60) as P. lasiorhinus. 

 5. Male; c. Female. Presented by the Commissioners of 



South Australia to the French Exhibition, May 11, 1867. 

 d, e. Presented by the Governor of the Botanic Gardens, 



Adelaide, South Australia, Dec. 24, 1867. 

 /. Female. Purchased, Feb. 25, 1870. 

 g. Male. Purchased, March 3, 1870. 



Order MONOTREMATA. 



Family TACHYGLOSSID.E. 



Genus TACHYGLOSSUS. 



615. Tachyglossus hystrix (Cuv.). Echidna. 

 Hob. New South Wales. 



a. Male. Purchased, April 18, 1863. 



b. Female. Presented by E. T. Smith, Esq., July 18, 1863. 



* On the Wombats in the Society's Menagerie, cf. Murie, P.Z.S. 

 1865, p. 838. 



