BY CLIVE E. LORD. 41 



In 1907 Professor Sir B'aldwin Spencer and Mr. J. A. 

 Kershaw, in Memoir 3 of the National Museum, Melb., 

 showed that the Tasmanian form differed from the form 

 met with in the Islands of Bass Straits. As it was ori- 

 ginally described from the latter locality the specific de- 

 signation iirsinus was reserved for the island form, and 

 the name tasmanansis given to the Tasmanian species. Tlie 

 position is open to further research with a long series of 

 adult bones, and in the present instance I prefer to tiea,t 

 the Tasma.nian form as a variety only. 



Perameles obesula, Shaw. 

 Short-nosed Bandicoot. 

 Feramehs obesula, Br. As. Ad. Sc. Handbk., p. 52 (1914); 

 Lucas and Le Sou.ef, An. Aust., p. 136 



(1909); 

 Ogilby, Cat. Aust. Mamm., p. 23 (1892); 

 West, Hist. Tas., Vol. I., p. 324 (1852). 



Perameles. ohesula, Thomas, Cat. M. & M. Brit. Mus., p. 

 231 (1888), who gives the following synonymy : — 



Didelphis obesula, Shaw, Nat. Misc., viii., p. 298 (animal) 

 (circa 1793); id.. Gen. Zool., i., pt. ii., p. 490" (1800) ; Tiu't., 

 Linn. Syst. Nat., i., p. 68 (1806). Perameles obesula, Geoff., 

 Ann. Mus., iv., p. 64. pi. xlv. (animal and skull) (1804) ; G. 

 Fisch., Zoogn., iii., p. 13 (1814); Desm., Mamm., i., p. 265 

 (1820); Schinz. C\\v. Thierr., i. p. 256 (1821); Gray, Griff. 

 Cut. An., K., v., p. 195(1827); Less., Man. Mamm., p. 217 

 (1827); id.. Diet. Class. d'H.N., xiii., p. 200 (1828); J. B. 

 Fisch., Syn. Mamm., p. 274 (1829); Less., H.N. Mamm. 

 (Compl. Buff.), iv., p. 487 (1830^; Waterli., Cat. Mamm. Mus. 

 Z.S., p. 65 (1838); id., Jard. Nat. Libr., Mamm., xi., p. 169, 

 pi. xiv. (animal) (1841) ; Gray, Grey's Austr., App. ii., p. 401 

 (1841); Owen, Tr. Z.S., ii.,'p. 320 (1841); Ivai^n., Arch. f. 

 Nat., vii., pt. 1, p. 290 (1841); Less.. N. Tabl. U.A. Mamm., 

 p. 191 (1842); Grav. List. Mamm. B.M., p. 96 (1843); Wagn., 

 ScLv. Saug. Supp., iii., p. 59 (]843^. v., p. 211 (1855); Schinz., 

 Syn. Mamm., i., p. 516 a844) ; Waterh., N.H. Mamm., i., p. 

 368, pi. XX., fig. 2 (skull) (1846); Gunn, P. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 

 ii., p. 83 (1852); Gieb., Odontogr., p. 40, pi." xviii., fig. 7. 

 (teeth) (18-55); Gould, Mamm. Austr., i., pi. xii. (animal) 

 (1856); Schleg., Dierk., p. 138 (1857); Gieb., Siiug. p. 721 

 (1859) ; Gerrard, Oat. Bones Mamm. B.M., p. 132 (1862) ; 

 Krefft, Cat. Mamm. Austr. Mus., p. 34 (1864); id.. Notes 

 Faun. Tasm., p. 1 (1868); id., Mamm. Austr. text to pi. xi., 

 p. 6 (1871); Schleg., Dierent., p. 164 (1872); Gieb.. Bronn's • 

 Kl. U. Ord. vi., Abth. v., pi. xix., fig. 7 and pi. xlvii., fig. 

 30 (.skull and teeth) (1874-76); Flow, and Gars., Cat. Ost. 

 Coll. Surg., ii., p. 736 (1884); Lyd., Cat. Foss. Mamm. B.M., 

 p. 2.56 (1887); Jent., Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus., p. 306 (1887). 

 Thylacis obesula. III., Prodr. Syst. Mamm., p. 76 (1811). 

 Isoodon obesula, Desm., N. Diet. d'H.N. (2) xvi., p. 409 

 (1817) ; F. Cuv., Diet. Sci. Not., xxxviii., p. 416 "(1825) : Desm., 

 Diet. ITniv. d'H.N., ix., p. 579 (1849). Perameles fusciventer. 

 Gray, Grey's Austr. App. ii., p. 407 (1841) ; id.. List. Mamm. 



