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ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No. 5, 
ears, forearm, feet, and perineum dark brown. Total length 
1,020 mm., ear 85 mm., head to fore edge of ears 200 mm., between 
the eyes 113 mm. 
In both sexes a sacral crest reaches the tail, and the perineal 
hair is bristly. 
The four living species of Phascolornys now known seem to 
arrange themselves into two groups, distinguished as of old externally 
by harsh or silky fur, naked or hairy nose ; internally by cranial 
dissimilarities and by a normal or abnormal number of ribs ; but 
through the intervention of the new species more closely interrelated 
than we had previously any reason to suspect. As the features 
common to the two northern species point backward to a common 
ancestry, so do they point forwards to the two southern forms as their 
more or less modified descendants. 
A case of two related species displaying in widely-separated 
localities racial differences in the skull, while agreeing in those external 
characters which distinguish them from the rest of the genus, is not 
without interest. 
A craniologist comparing the skulls would hardly suppose that 
they came from animals so much resembling each other externally. 
Moreover, a lasiorhine wombat, with cranial features shared by the 
gymnorhine members of the genus, would appear to stand somewhere 
near the point of divergence, in a line of ancestry common to the 
naked and hairy-nosed species, and does not lose interest on that 
account. 
Mr. Gillespie has so fully identified himself with the discovery of 
this wombat, that it is but a measure of justice to him to endeavour 
to perpetuate the memory of his good offices by proposing for it the 
name Phascolornys gillespiei. 
MEASUREMENTS OF SKULLS. 
Old male. 
Young male. 
Female. 
Entire length 
185 mm. 
... 182 mm. . 
.. 179 mm. 
Entire breadth 
142 „ 
... 132 „ 
. 133 „ 
Length of nasals 
78 „ 
... 83 „ 
. 80 „ 
Greatest breadth of nasals 
65 „ 
... 63 „ . 
• 64 „ 
Least breadth of nasals 
35 „ 
... 32 „ 
• 34 „ 
Breadth between temporals ... 
45 „ 
... 42 „ . 
• 40 „ 
Breadth between postorbital 
processes 
76 „ 
... 68 „ 
• 70 „ 
Breadth between orbits 
67 „ 
... 60 „ . 
- 62 „ 
Palate .. 
105 „ 
... 102 „ . 
. 100 „ 
Diastoma ... 
47 „ 
... 46 „ . 
. 42 „ 
Expansion of nasal process of 
premaxillary 
45 „ 
... 42 „ . 
• 45 
Mr. Gillespie is good enough to inform us that his wombat affects 
level country covered with red soil in which it forms its burrows ; 
that it is only procurable shortly before the dawn of day ; and that it 
is known to the dark native of the district by the name of 
" Yaminon." 
By Authority : Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane. 
