k. skun. 



I. SkuU (bisected). 

 m. Skeleton. 



PEEAMELIB^. 



R. Light, S. A. 

 South Australia. 



219 



F, G. Waterhouse, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 F. G. Waterhouse, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Zoological Society. 



Skull Measurements of Phascoloniys. 



Species i 



Specimen 



Age 



Basal length 



Greatest breadth 



Nasals, length 



„ greatest breadth 



„ least breadth 



Interorbital breadth 



Breadth between tips of poBtorbifcal 



processes 



Intertemporal constriction 



Palate, length 



Diastema, length 



Palatal foramen 



Basi-cranial axis 



Basi-facial axis 



Facial index 



Teeth, length of whole tooth-series . 



Fh. 



mitchelli. 



h. 

 aged. 



185 

 145 



81 



55 



18 

 ,63 



67 



47-5 

 125 



48-5 



14 



57 

 130 

 228 



57 



161 

 135 

 70 

 49 

 15 

 55 



60 



49 



106 



40 



11 



50 



113 



226 



51 



9- 

 adult. 



143 

 125 



62 



46 



17 



50 



52-5 

 40 

 93-5 

 31-5 

 10 

 48 

 96-5 

 201 

 47 



Fh. 



latifrons. 



167 

 144 



65 



67 



29 



69 



90 



46 

 110 



46-5 



10 



58 

 110 

 190 



50 



Suborder II. POLYPROTODONTIA. 



Incisors numerous, four or five above and three or four below, 

 subequal; smaU, much, exceeded by the long "pointed canines. 

 Molars generally sharply cuspidate. 



Carnivorous and insectivorous ; rarely omnivorous. 



Australian and American *. 



Family IV. PEEAMELTD^. 



Polyprotodont Marsupials, adapted for a fossorial insectivorous 

 or omnivorous life. Hind limbs decidedly longer than fore. Fore 

 feet with two or, generally, three of the middle toes long, functional, 

 and clawed, the other toes rudimentary or absent. Hind feet 

 syndactylous, with four or five toes, very unequal in size ; hallux 



European as late as the Lower Miocene period. 



