THE HAIRY-NOSED WOMBAT. 
Phascolomys lattfrom. 
Plate XXVII. 
A eigltke of the Tasmanian Wombat, the commonest and best-known species of this peculiar Australian 
form, has already been given in the first series of these Illustrations. Mr. Wolf’s present drawing pourtrays 
another most distinct species of Wombat, of which we have long had the skull in our collections, although we 
have only lately become acquainted with the living animal itself. 
In the spring of 1862, the Zoological Society of London received from the Acclimatisation Society of 
Melbourne two Wombats of this new species. These had been brought to Melbourne from South Australia, 
the common Wombat of Victoria being quite a different animal, more nearly allied to, if not identical with, 
the Tasmanian Wombat. This South-Australian Wombat is, however, readily recognizable by very trenchant 
characters. Its long pointed ears strike the observer at first glance as being different from those of the 
Phascolomys ursinrn. The muzzle clothed with dense coarse white hair, offers another very marked difference, 
and led me to suggest the name lasiorhinus, under which Mr. Gould has described and figured this species in his 
“ Mammals of Australia,” as being peculiarly appropriate to the species. But as has been recently shown by 
Dr. Murie* Mr Gould’s term must give way to the prior appellation of Professor Owen, who first characterized 
this species from its cranial peculiarities in 1845, and proposed to call it latifrons. 
Much more information is requisite concerning the habits, ranges, and other particulars of the history of 
the Australian Wombats, before our knowledge of this subject can be deemed in any way complete. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 838. 
