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PHASCOLOMIS. 
CHARACTER GENERICUS. 
Denies incisores 3, simplices; molares }$, anterioribus sim- 
plicibus, posticis duplicibus. 
Pedes pentadactyli; posticorum pollice inermi. 
Corpus pilosum. 
PHASCOLOMIS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Jaws with two simple incisive, and ten grinding teeth; the 
anterior grinders simple, all the hinder ones double. 
Legs with five fingers; thumbs of the hinder ones without 
claws. 
Body hairy. 
All the Phascolomes are natives of New Holland, and, like 
several of the other animals of that country, have a pouch 
for their mamme. 
