10 CYCLOPES. TAMANDUA. 



Family II. Hyrmecoiiliagidse. Anteaters. 



Genus 8. Cyclopes. Two-toed Anteaters. 



Cyclopes Gray, Lond, Med. Repos., xv, 1821, p. 305. Type 



Myrmecophaga didactyla Linnaeus. 

 Didactyles F. Cuv., Diet. Scien. Nat., lix, 1829, p. 501. 

 Myrmydon Wagl., Nat. Syst. Amph., 1830, p. 36. 

 Dionyx I, Geoff., Res. Legons Mamm. Mus. Paris, 1835, p. 54. 

 Myrmecolichnus Reich., K. Sach. Naturh, Mus. Dresden, Ein 



Leitfaden, 1836, p. 51. 

 Eurypterna Glog., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., i, 1841, pp. xxxi, 



112. 

 Cyclothurus (sic) Less., Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim., Mamm., 1842, 



p. 152. 

 Didactyla Liais, Climats, G^ol., Faun., Geog., Botanique Brazil, 

 1872, p. 356. 



20. Cyclopes dorsalis (Gray). 



Cyclothurus dorsalis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 385, pL 19. 



Cyclopes dorsalis Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 25, figs. 6, VIII. Zool. Ser, 

 Little or Two-toed Anteater. 



Type locality. Costa Rica. 



Geogr. Distr. Guatemala through Central America to South 

 America. 



Genus 9. Taiiiaiidiia. Three-toed Anteaters. 



Tamandua Frisch, Nat. Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 5, Tab. 

 Gen., 1775. Less., Nouv. Tabl. Regn. Anim., Mamm., 1842, 

 p. 152. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 383. Type Myrme- 

 cophaga tetradactyla Linnaeus. 

 Tamanduas F. Cuv., Diet. Scien. Nat., lix, 1829, p. 501. 

 Uroleptes Wagl., Nat. Syst. Amphib., 1830, p. 36. 



21. Tamandua tetradactyla (Linnaeus). 



Myrmecophaga tetradactyla Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 35. 

 Myrmecophaga myosura Pall., Miscell., 1766, p. 64, 

 Ursine Anteater Griff., Anim. Kingd., in, 1827, p. 304, pi. 

 Myrmecophaga crispus Rupp., Mus, Senck., iii, 1845, p. 179. 

 Tamandua bivittata Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 384. 

 Myrmecophaga quadridactyla True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 

 p. 588. 



