216 PHASCOLOMTID^. 



fanat); Benn. Cat. N. S. Auitr. Mm. p. 2 (1837); Waterh. Cat 



Mamm. Mus. Z. S. p. 68 (1838); Gunn, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) 



i. p. 103 (1838) ; QulUver, P. Z. 8. 1841, p. 51 ; Waterh. Jard. 



Nat. Libr., Mamtn. xi. p. 302, pi. xxxii. (animal) (1841) ; Owen, 



Tr. Z. S. ii. p. 408, pi. Ixviii. (skeletoB) & pi. Ixxi. fig. 6 (skull) 



(1841) ; Less. N. Tahl. R. A., Mamm. p. 192 (1842) ; ScMnz, Syn. 



Mamm. i. p. 568 (1844) ; Watei-h. N. H. Mamm. i. p. 246, pi. iii. 



fig. 1 (skull) and pi. xii. fig. 7 (sole) (1846) ; Gerv. Diet. Univ. ffS. N. 



ix. p. 728 (1849); Gwm, P. Soy. Soc. Tasm. ii. p. 85 (1852); 



Gould, Mamm. Austr. i. pis. Iv. & Ivi. (animal) (1855) ; Gerv. 



S. N. Mamm. ii. p. 267, fig. (animal & teeth) (1855); Gieb. 



Odontogr. p. 43, pi. xix. figs. 4, 6, & 7 (teeth) (1855) ; Schleg. 



Bierh. p. 144 (1857) ; Angas, P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 269 ; Krefft, Cat. 



Mamm. Austr. Mus. p. 54 (1864) ; Murie, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 853, 



fig. 2 (skull) ; id. P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 798 et seqq. ; McCoy, Tr. Soy. 



8oc. Victoria, yiii. p. 267, fig. b (nasals) (1868) ; Krefft, Notes 



Faun, Tasm. p. 4 (1868) ; id. Mamm. Austr. pi. v. (animal) (1871) ; 



Schleg. Bierent. p. 172, fig. (animal) (1872) ; Gulliver, P. Z. 8. 



1875, p. 491, pi. It. fig. 50 (hlood-oorpuscle) ; Schmidt, P. Z. 8. 



1880, p. 805; Sigg. l^ Pett. P. Soy. Soc. Tasm. 1888, p. 196; 



Flow. $■ Gars. Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 696 (1884) ; Lyd. Cat. Foss. 



Mamm. B. M. v. p. 147, fig. 26 (dentition) (1887); Jent. Cat. 



Qst. Leyd. Mus. p. 307 (1887). 

 Phascolomya ursinus, G. Cuv. S. A. i. p. 185 (1817) ; F. Cm. S. N. 



Mamm. (fol.) livr. x. (animal) (1819) ; Schinz, Cuv. Thien: i. 



p. 266 (1821) ; F. Cuv. Dents Mamm. p. 139, pi. xliv. (teeth) 



(1825) ; Surm. Lehrh. Naturg.^. 547 (1830) ; Gray, Grey's Austr., 



App. ii. p. 404 (1841); id. Idst Mamm. B. M. p. 95 (1843); 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p 131 (1862) ; Gray, Ann. 



Mag. N. H. (3) xi. p. 458 (1863). 

 Phascolomys bassii. Less. Man. Mamm. p. 229 (1827). 

 Phascolomys fossor, Wagn. Schr. Sdug. Supp. iii. p. 132 (1843), v. 



p. 333 (1855) ; Gieb. Sdug. p. 669 (1869) ; id. Bronn's Kl. u. Ordn. 



yi. Abth. v. pi. xxi. figs. 1-3 (skull) (1874) ; Brehm, Thierl. ii. 



p. 601, fig. (animal and skeleton) (1880). 



Tabmanias Wombat. 



Similar in every respect to Ph. mitchelli, except that its size is 

 about one fourth, smaller. Colour uniform dark grizzled greyish 

 brown, as in the grizzled or intermediate variety of that species. 



Slcull with a basal length of from 130 to 150 millim., as compared 

 to about from 160 to 185 millim. in Ph. mitchelli. 



Dimensions. 



c?. ?• 



a (stuffed). b (stuffed). 



millim. millim. 



Head and body 900 950 



Hind foot 80 74 



Ear 40 60 



Skull, see p. 219. 



Hab. Tasmania and islands in Bass's Straits. 

 Ti/pe not in existence, 



