PHASCQLOMYS LATIFRONS, Owen . 
Broad-fronted Wombat. 
Head and Fore Feet, of the size of life. 
For many years the skull of a distinct species of Wombat, from the southern portion of 
Australia, has formed part of the collection at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 
Lincoln’s Inn Fields. To the animal to which this skull belonged Professor Owen applied 
the name of Phascolomys latifrons. On the receipt by the British Museum of a skin of an 
apparently second species of Wombat from Victoria or Adelaide, I came to the conclusion 
that it was the skin of the animal characterized by Professor Owen, — a point which could 
have been easily determined had the skull been sent with the skin, but unfortunately it 
was destitute of this very important appendage : in other words, the skull at the College 
of Surgeons arrived without the skin, and the skin at the British Museum without the 
skull. I have little doubt, however, of my having applied the term latifrons to the right 
animal. 
The accompanying head was taken from the skin in the British Museum, above alluded 
to, and is of the size of life; it will be seen that it differs very considerably in colour 
from the P. JT^ombat so common in Tasmania. 
