1. PHASCOIOMTS. 215 



There appears to be no reason to distinguish specifically or even 

 varietaUy the black, yellow, and grizzled forms of this species, the 

 latter being quite intermediate between the other two, and all of 

 them being apparently due only to individual, and not to geographical 

 variation. 



a. Ad. skull. New South Wales. AUan Cunningham, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 T JAd.sk.) , Gippsland. Purchased. 



*■ I, Skull. ( ^■ 



(Grizzled variety.) 

 e. Yg. al., d . Gippsland. Purchased. 



d, e. Skulls. Mt. Gambier, S. A. F. G. Waterhouse, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /. Skull. Lake Alexander, mouth of F. G. Waterhouse, Esq. 



Mlirray R, S. A. , [P.]. 



ff. Ad. St., (J . Purchased. 



(Yellow variety. Ti/pe of Ph. setosus, Gray. Figured by Gould as 

 Ph. latifruns.') 

 , ( Ad. sk. I Zool. Soc. 



■ I Skeleton, mounted, j 



(Black variety. Probably type of Ph. niger, Gould.) 

 . j Ad. sk. ) o Purchased. 



*• j Skull. [ ?• 



(Yellow variety.) 

 j. Skeleton. Zool. Soc. 



k. Skeleton. Purchased. I 



2. Phascolomys nrsinus. 



Wombat, Collins, New South Wales, ii. p. 153, plate (animal) (1802) ; 



Home, Phil. Trans. 1808, p. 304, pi. ix. (anat.). 

 Didelphis ursina, Shaw, Gen. Zool. i. pt. 2, p. 504 (1800). 

 Wombatus fossor, Desm. N. Diet. cCH. N. (1) xxiv. p. 20 (1803) ; 



Sevast. M4m. Ac. PMersb. i. p. 446 (1807) ; Tiedem. Zool. p. 433 



(1808); a. Fisch. Zoogn. iii. p. 15 (1814). 

 Phascolomys fusca {Oeoff.), III. Prodr. Si/si. Mamm. p. 78 (1811) ; 



Desm. N. Diet. d'H. iV. (2") xxv. p. 500 (1817) ; Owen, Cyclop. 



Anat. Phys. iii. p. 267, figs. 93, 94, & 105 (skull & skeleton) (1840). 

 Amblotis fossor, lU. Prodr. Syst. Mamm. p. 77 (1811). 

 Opossum hirsutum, Perry, Arcana, letterpress & plate (animal) 



(1811). 

 Phascolomys vombatus. Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 102, pi. xcvi. 



(animal) (1815); Oioen, Odontogr. pi. c. fig. 9 (teeth) (1846); 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 41 ; Owen, Tr. Z. S. iii. p. 303, pi. xxxvii. 



figs. 1-3 (skull) (1849); id. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. i. p. 330 



(1858); id. Phil. Trans. 1872, pp. 173 & 241 et seqq. figs. 1 & 2, 



pis. xix., xxi. to xxiii., & xxxix. (skull, teeth, &c.) ; id. Tr. Z. S. 



viii. p. 345 et seqq. pis. 1. to Ivii. (skuU) (1872) ; id. Tr. Z. S. viii. 



p. 483 et seqq. (1874) 

 Phascolomys wombat. Per. Sr Les. Toy. Terr. Austr. ii. p. 13, Atl. 



pl. xxviii. (animal) (1816); Desm. Mamm. i. p. 276 (1820); 



id. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxix. p. 450 (1826) ; Gray, Griff. Cuv. An. K. 



V. p. 206 (1827) ; Less. Diet. Class. WH. N. xiii. p. 352 (1828); 



Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 286 (1829) ; Less. H. N. Mamm. (Compl. 



Buff.) iv. p. 500, pl. xxxvii. (18.80) ; Owen, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 49 



