EXISTING- SPECIES OP THE GENUS PHASCOLOMYS. 
18. Owen. In Mitchell’s Three Expeditions into the Interior 
of Eastern Australia, &c. Letter, dated May, 
1838. Contains original description of Phascolomys 
mitchelli. 
19. Waterhouse. — Jar line's Naturalists' Library, p. 300, 1841. 
Describes the animal under the name Phascolomys 
wombat, and gives its distribution as New South Wales, 
South Australia, and Van Diemen’s Land. A short 
general account of the history of the nomenclature of 
the animal is also given. 
20 . Gray. — List of Specimens of Mammalia in Collection of 
Brit. Mus., p. 95, 1843. Includes a young specimen 
from Van Diemen’s Land. 
21. Owen. — In article Marsupialia in Todd’s Cyclopedia, 
p. 208, fig. 105, 1845. Figures a complete skeleton 
under the name Phascolomys fusca. 
22. Owen. — P.Z.S., p. 82, 1845. Gives the specific name 
latifrons to a South Australian form (skull) ; also 
exhibits skull of Phascolomys from Tasmania. 
23. Waterhouse. — Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, p. 246, 1846. 
Recognises two species — Ph. wombat (distribution as 
in 19), and Ph. latifrons from South Australia, and 
gives a general account of the knowledge of the 
genus up to date of publication. 
24. Gray. — P.Z.S., Pt. xv., p. 41, 1847. Describes and com- 
pares skulls from Tasmania and Australia, and suggests 
possibility of more than one species being confounded 
under name Ph. vombatus. 
25. Owen.— Trans. Z. S., p. 303, 1849. Describes and com- 
pares the skulls of a Tasmanian wombat as Ph. 
latifrons. 
26. Owen.— Cat. Ost. Ser. R. C. Surgeons, Yol. i., 1853, p. 344. 
Describes two skulls from Australia under the name 
of Ph. platyrhinus. 
27. Angas. — P.Z.S., p. 268, PL 60, 1861. Describes and 
compares living specimens of the Tasmanian wombat 
and Ph. latifrons. 
28. Gould. — Mammals of Australia, Introduction, p. 29, Plates 
59 and 60, 1863. Recognises Ph. wombat from Van 
Diemen’s Land and the Islands in Bass Strait ; Ph. 
latifrons from Victoria and South Australia ; Ph. 
lasiorhinus from Victoria and South Australia ; and 
describes Ph. niger from South Australia (?). He 
figures the first three. 
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