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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Possibly the Cape York forms should be distinguished from the non- 
Australian specimens by the use of Gould’s term nudicaudata (1849).. 
In 1918 Alexander established the genus Wyulda for the Cuscus from 
North-west Australia, with the specific name squamicaudata. 
Family PHASCO LARCTID Ml . 
Phascolaretos cinereus adustus Thomas. Koala or Native Bear. 
In 1923 Oldfield Thomas separated the Queensland forms from the 
New South Wales and Victorian koalas under the name Phascolaretos 
cinereus adustus (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9), xi, p. 246). There are no 
records of the occurrence of koalas farther north than Townsville. 
Family PHASCOLOMYID/E. 
Phascolomys mitchelli Owen. Naked-nosed Wombat. South-eastern Queensland. 
According to Mathews and Iredale (Viet. Nat., xxix, 1912, p. 14),. 
Perry’s “ Opossum hirsutum ” was applied to the New South Wales 
wombat, which would give hirsutum (1811) priority over Owen’s name. 
Phascolomys gillespiei De Vis (1900). Queensland Hairy- nosed Wombat. Type 
locality : Moonie River, South-western Queensland (Ann. Qld. Mus., No. 
5, pp. 14-16, Plates ix-x). 
Family DAS YURIDAE. 
Dasyurus maculatus (Kerr). “ Tiger Cat ” or “ Spotted-tailed Native Cat.” 
Eastern Queensland. 
Large specimens of this marsupial may attain 3 feet 6 inches in total 
length. Probably most of the stories of a fierce new carnivorous animal 
are based on unusually large “ Tiger Cats.” A. S. Le Soeuf ( Wild 
Animals of Australasia, pp. 329-332) reprints several references to a 
large “ Striped Marsupial Cat" of the Cape York Peninsula, which is 
presumably new, but which has never been collected. 
Dasyurus hallucatus Gould. Northern Native Cat. North Queensland. 
Dasyurus hallucatus predator Thomas. Cape York, Queensland. 
This subspecies was described by Thomas in 1926 (Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. (9), xviii, p. 543). 
Dasyurus gracilis Ramsay. 
This species, which was described by Ramsay in 1888 from a single 
specimen obtained in the Bellenden-Ker Range, is unrepresented in our 
collections. 
Dasyurus geoifroyi Gould. Geoffroy’s Native Cat. 
Two specimens are listed in our series without precise localities. 
Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw). Common Native Cat. 
Although this species is represented in our old collections, no precise 
localities are indicated. 
