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RECORDS OF IV. A- MUSEUM. 
Phascolomys, Geoff. (1803).! 
Phascolomys latifrons, Owen (1845).^ 
Phascolomys lasiorhinvs, Gould 
Lasior/iiiws m'coyi, Gray 
Phascolomys niger, Kreft't 
,, lasiorhinus var, niger, Krefft 
Mamm. Austr. pis. Lix., lx,, 1863 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) XI., p. 458, 
1863 
Mamm, Austr., text to plate v,, 1871 
Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 796, 1872 
THE HAIRY-NOSED WOMBAT. 
A number of Wombat teeth have been identified as belonging 
to an animal of this species. They mostly showed the working 
surface, the outline of which, together with the extent of the 
external enamel and the nature of the longitudinal grooving, render 
the determination a matter of comparative certainty. 
Several fragments of bone, including portions of the humerus, 
ulna, radius, and tibia, are undoubtedly phascolomine, and when 
compared with Prof. Owen’s figures in “ Extinct Mammals of 
Australia,” plate xcix., etc., they are seen to approach more nearly 
to the latifront type than to the more slender P. mitchelli. The 
P. hackeiti from the Mammoth Cave is larger in size, with teeth 
which are narrower in comparison to their length, antero-posteriorly, 
and without the faint longitudinal grooving. 
Phascolomys parvus, Owen (1872J. ^ 
TFIE DWARF WOMBAT. 
Four very worn molar teeth much smaller than those of adult 
P. mitchelli or P. latifrons were found amongst the second donation of 
specimens. They were at first taken to belong to a young P. mitchelli 
but there seems no doubt that they should be attributed to an 
example of the species, P. parvus of Owen figured in plate xix., figs. 
6 and 7, and xx., figs. 6, 7 and 8 of the Philosophical Transactions, 
1872, of which the founder of the species says on p. 193, “ with 
1 Vide ante, p. 15, for synonymy. 
2 Owen. Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1845, p. 82, 1845. 
8 Owen. Phil Trans. Royal Soc. 1872, p. 193. 
