82 List of the Mammals indigenous to Tasmania. 
“‘ Native Cat” of the Colonists. The black one with white 
spots is the D. viverrinus, and the gray with white spots the 
D. Maugei of authors. 
12. Phascogale (Antechinus) minima, 'TEMMINCK. 
Dasyurus minimus, GEoFFRoy, Ann. du Mus. iti. p. 362. 
Phascogale minima, TeEmM., Monog. de Mamm. i. p. 59- 
affinis, GRAY, appendix to Grey's Travels 
in N. W. Australia, i. 406. 
Well figured in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror. 
Beasts, pl. 25, f. 3. 
13. Phascogale (Antechinus) Swainsonti, WATERHOUSE, 
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1840, vol. iv. p. 300. 
Well figured in the Zoology of the Erebus and Terror. 
Beasts, pl. 25, f. 1. 
14. Phascogale (Antechinus) leucopus, Gray, Ann. and 
Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1842, vol. x. p. 261. 
The three species of Tasmanian Phascogale have no re- 
cognized colonial names. They are small carnivorous animals, 
about the size of small rats, probably generally dispersed over 
the island. I obtained two very distinct species near Laun- 
ceston. 
There seems to be some confusion with reference to the 
species of these animals. The species affinzs and minima are 
united by Mr. Waterhouse in his ‘‘ Nat. Hist. of the Mam- 
malia,” (1846) ; and Mr. J. E. Gray unites mznzma with 
Swainsonii in the appendix to Capt. Grey's Travels, and in 
the catalogue of the Mammalia in the Brit. Museum (1843), 
separates P. affinis as a distinct species from P. minima, 
with which Mr. Waterhouse unites it. 
15. Perameles obesula, SHAW. 
Didetphys obesula, SHaAw, Nat. Miscell. vii. t. 298. 
General Zool. i. pt. 2, p. 490. 
Perameles obesula, GEoF¥., Ann, du Mus. iy. p. 64, pl. 45. 
