S POTTE D * T A1 LE n D AS YU RU S . 
44 I 
Inches. Lines. Inches. Lines. 
Length from tip of nose to root of tail 17.0 24 0 
“ of tail . 15 0 20 0 
“ from nose to ear . 3 0 4 3 
“ of ear ... ... ... 10 12 
“ of hind foot and nails ... 2 0 3 7 
The admeasurements given in the first column are from a 
specimen in the museum of the Zoological Society ; and a 
very large individual, apparently a male, furnished the dimen¬ 
sions in the second column. I will now add the dimensions 
of two skulls of the D. maculatm contained in the museum of 
the Eoyal College of Surgeons. 
Adult. Aged. 
Inches. Lines. Inches. Lines. 
Total length of skull . 
Length from hinder root of zygomatic 
3 
6* 
arch to apex of intermaxillaries ... 
3 
1 
3 
0 
Width . 
2 
2 
2 
2 h 
“ between orbits ... . 
10 
9* 
“ immediately behind orbits ... 
5| 
5 
Length of nasal bones . 
1 
3 
Width of ditto behind 
51 
“ “ in front . 
31 
Length of palate ... 
Width of ditto between hindermost 
1 
11 
1 
10J 
molars ... ... . 
n 
Length of four true molars taken 
together . 
n 
9-2 
“ of lower jaw ... . 
Height of ditto from apex of coronoid 
2 
11 
process 
1 
The Spotted-tailed Dasyurus appears to he confined to 
Van Diemens Land. The earliest notice of the animal is 
that contained in Phillip's Voyage, under the name of the 
Spotted Martin, a name which, it appeal's, misled Shaw in 
his location of the animal, it being described by him under 
the generic title Vi very a Geoffrey’s specific name maerourus 
is generally adopted for this animal, but as I do not perceive 
