258 



DASTUBID^. 



{Skeleton & ana- 1 Tasmania, 



tomical prepa^> S- 

 rations in al. | 



{Pelvis, sternum, & | Tasmania, 



anatomical pre- > 5 . 

 parations in al. ) 



(The specimens described by Dr. R, 

 /. i Yg. sk. I J, Tasmania. 



/• ] Skull.* ( °- 



g, h. Imm. skeletons, cJ 5 . Launceston, 



Tasmania, 

 (Specimens mentioned and figured P. Z. 

 i. Skeleton, 5. Tasmania. 



/. Imm. skeleton (imper- Tasmania. 



feet), ?. 

 k. Skull (bisected), § . Tasmania. 



I, TO. Skulls, $ . 



n. Skull, c? . 

 0. Skull, S- 

 p. Skull, cj. 



Tasmania. 



Tasmania. 

 Tasmania. 

 No history. 



H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger. 



, Cunningham, Z. e.) 



"W. F. Petterd, Esq. 



[C. & E.l 

 Zool. See. m. Gunn & 



J. Grant, Esqa. [P.].] 

 S. 1858, p. 90, pi. xviii.) 

 Zool. Soc. 

 Zool. Soc. [C. Barclay, 



Esq. rP.].1 

 F, G. Waterhouse, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P. 



& C.]. . . 

 Haslar Hospital. 

 Gould CoU. 



2. SARCOPHILUS. 



Type. 



Sarcophilus, F, Cfuv. H. N. Mamm. (fol.) iv. livr. Ixx. 



(1837) S. ursinus. 



Diabolus, Qray, Grey's Aastr., App. ii. p. 400 (1841) .... S. ursinus. 



Form thick and powerful. Muzzle short and broad. Ears broad 

 and rounded, the lower part of their outer margin very convex, and 

 their actual tip so broadly rounded off as to be scarcely marked at 

 all; metatragus as in Dasyurus. Tail of medium length, evenly 

 hairy. Feet plantigrade. Toes subequal, with well-developed 

 curved claws ; hallux wanting ; soles entirely naked, without 

 defined sole-pads. 



Shull remarkably broad and strong, with a short thick muzzle. 

 Palatal vacuities of medium size. Bullse prominent, inflated. Co- 

 ronoid process of lower jaw vertical. Axis vertebra very short and 

 broad. Humerus with an entepicondyloid foramen. 



Dentition : — I. 



I C. J, P. ^ 



3.0 



M. 



1.2.3, 



1x2=42. 



. 3 . 0' -^' 1.2.3.4' 



Teeth blunt and rounded. Upper i." not differentiated from the 

 other incisors. Premolars rounded, broader than, or at least as 

 broad as, long, closely pressed against each other and against the 

 canine in front and m.^ behind ; p.* entirely absent. Molars broad 

 and heavy, the main central cusp of m.' and m.^ with a small sub- 

 sidiary cusp on its outer slope; m.* without a marked posterior 

 talon. Lower teeth rounded, strong, closely crowded together ; 

 molars simple, much as in Thylacinus, but each with a small addi- 

 tional postero-internal secondary cusp, most largely developed on 



* Preserved in the " Index" portion of the Museum. 



