I-J TAMANDUA. M VRMECOPH AGA. CABASSOUS. 



Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. dv \Y. Indies, 

 P. C. M. Pu!'.. iv. I't. i, i. ,04, p. 28. Zool. Ser. 



IDLE-BACKED A . I ! A I l.K. 



Type /cVc////v. H <>nd IK- 



Honduras to French (itiiana? South America; 

 unknown. 



Genus 10. .Xyrim'oopliaua. (Jivat Ant 'at >rs. 



Myrmecophaga Linn., vSyst. Xat., i, 1758, p. 35. Type Mynncco- 



pliii^i triiLiityhi Linnaeus. 

 Falcijcr Rehn, Amer. Xat., xxxiv, 1900, p. 576. 



2.>. Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus. 



Myrmecophaga trihictyLi Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 35. Elliot, 

 Mamm. Middle Amer. & \V. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. 

 i, i<)04, p. 29, figs. 8, xi. Zool. Ser. 



Myniu\^[>li<ii;ti jnbata Linn., vSyst. Nat., i, 1766, p. 52. 

 /',;/. /;"</- iu/'.il,! Rehn, Amer. Nat., xxxiv, 1900, p. 576. 

 GRI-AI A XTEATI-R. 



Type A 1 ' <ility. Hraxil. 



Geogr. Distr. Guatemala f> Brazil. 



Family III. Dasy |o<li<l;r. V rina<li I lox. 



Subfamily I. Dasypodinae. 

 Genus 1 1. Cabassoiis. 



Cahassous M, Murtn.-, Cuv. Anim. Kin^d., i, 1831, p. 164. Type 



l>'t \ />;/. v iiiiii'iiutns Linna-us. 

 Xi-nnnts \Yaid., Xat. Amph., 1830, p. 36. (nee Boic, Aves, 



6.) 

 ArizOStUS G\Og., Hand- u. Hilfsl). Xatur^., I, 1841, pp. xxxil, 114. 



'I', it, -it, i Gray, I'PM . Z.M.I. Soc., 1865, p. 378. 

 /. . Ani<'L'liin, Rev. Argent. Hist. Xat., i, 1891, entr. 4a, 



P- 



_'. Cab.-isM.us cciitralis (MilK-r). 



Tatoua (/.iphihi) ccntr,ilis Miller, Pruc. Hiol. Soc. Wash., xin, 



PP- 4, 7- 



!n'sfn,ins True, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1896, p. 345. 



