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RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
by Prof. Baldwin Spencer and Mr. R. H. Walcott, in the proceed- 
ings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. XXIV., Part I., 1911, 
pp. 92-123, will be undertaken. 
The Museum and Science generally are greatly indebted to 
Messrs. Wm. Ponton and John Sharp for these collections, the 
value and significance of which cannot be estimated until all the 
specimens have been subjected to examination. 
Up to the present eight species of extinct Marsupials have had 
their range extended into Western Australia, and of these several 
do not appear to have been recorded in the adjoining State of 
South Australia. 
Order MARSUPIALIA. 
Sub-Order POLYPROTODONTIA. Fam. Dasyurid^e. 
Sarcophilus, Cuv. (1838) i- 
Sarcophilus laniaritis, Owen (1838). 2 
Dasyurus laniarius — Owen .. Owen in Mitchell's “Three Expeditions 
into Australia,” 2nd edition, Vol. II,, p. 
363. 1838. 
Sarcophilus laniarius — Owen . . Lydekker Cat. Foss. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 
Pt. V., p. 265, 1887. 
SARCOPHILUS LANIARIUS. 
This species is represented by eight specimens, the most 
perfect being a portion of the skull comprising the maxilla and part 
of the premaxilla with the right upper tooth series from I3 to M4 
and showing a portion of the outline of the infraorbital foramen and 
the palatal vacuity. This specimen agrees in size with Prof. 
Owen’s figures on Plate V. of Ext. Mamm. Aust. The length of 
space occupied by Mi to M3 is 39mm. 
Four other fragments show portions of the upper tooth series; 
in every case the teeth are well worn, the animals to which they 
belonged were therefore adult or aged. The largest specimen has 
the infraorbital foramen perfect. 
A piece of the left lower jaw shows the four molar teeth in 
1 F. Cuvier. Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes, pi, 70, 1838, 
“ Sir T. Mitchell's “ Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia,” 
2nd edition, Vol. II., p. 363, 1838, as Dasyurus laniarius. 
