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FHASCOLOMYIDvE. 
living upon the ground like the Wombat. The section 
Phaseolomyidee contains but two recent species; they form the 
Genus, Phascolomys, l 
Phascolomys. Geoffroy, Notice sur une Nouvelle Espece des Mammiferes, 
&c. Annales du Mus. d’Hist. Nat. ii. p.364. 1803. 
Vombaius . Geoffroy, Bulletin des Sciences par la Soc. Philom. iii. 
p. 185. 1803. 
Phascolomys. Illiger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. p. 77. 1811. 
Ambloti r. Illiger, loc. cit. p. 78. 
Body stout; head large and having the upper surface Battened; 
muzzle obtuse, the muffle naked, the naked part terminating 
behind in an angle ; nostrils very widely separated behind, but 
converging in front; upper lip cleft ; eyes small; cars small 
and pointed; limbs equal, short and stout; feet naked 
beneath; the fore feet with five short and stout toes, each 
furnished with a broad, solid, and but little curved nail; hind 
feet provided with five toes, of which the first, or innermost, 
is very small, naillcss, and placed nearly at right angles with 
the foot; the second, third, and fourth toes joined, and 
haring (as well as the fifth toe) long and curved nails, which 
are concave beneath : tail rudimentary. 
Stomach simple; provided with a special gland situated to the 
left of the cardiac orifice. 
C<ecu m very short, wide, and with a vermiform appendage. 
Till very recently, the genus Phascolomys contained but 
one known species, the Wombat; and this animal was origi¬ 
nally described and figured in Collins’ Account of tlio English 
Colony of New South Wales: 2 and it is upon this description 
that Geofirov founded the genus Vombaius in 1803. The 
account of the dentition of the Wombat given in Collins* 
1 From <paiTKof\os and y.vs, pouched rat. 
2 lto. London, 1802. See pages 153 to 158. 
