12 TAMANDUA. MYRMECOPHAGA. CABASSOUS. 



Tamattdua sellata Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 28. Zool. Ser. 

 Saddle-backed Axteater. 



Type locality. Honduras. 



Geogr.' Distr. Honduras to French Guiana? South America; 

 range tinknown. 



Genus 10. Myruiecophaga. Great Aiit eaters. 



Myrmecophaga Linn., Syst. Xat., i, 1758, p. 35. Type Mynneco- 

 pJiaga tridaciyla Linnaeus. 

 Falcifer Rehn, Amer. Nat., xxxiv, 1900, p. 576. 



23. Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus. 



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

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

 I, 1904, p. 29, figs. 8, XI. Zool. Ser. 

 Myrmecophaga jtibata Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, p. 52. 

 Falcifer jubata Rehn, Amer. Nat., xxxiv, 1900, p. 576. 

 Great Axteater. 



Type locality. Brazil. 



Geogr. Distr. Guatemala to Brazil. 



Family III. Dasypodidse. Armadillos. 



Subfamily I. Dasypodinae. 

 Genus 11. Cabassous. 



Cabassous McMurtrie, Cuv. Anim. Kingd., i, 1831, p. 164. Type 



Dasypus unicittctus Linnaeus. 

 Xenurus Wagl., Nat. Syst. Amph., 1830, p. 36. (nee Boie, Aves, 



1826.) 

 ArizostusGlog., Hand- u. Hilfsb. Xaturg., i, 1841, pp. xxxii, 114. 

 TcUoita Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 378. 

 Lysiurus Ameghino, Rev. Argent. Hist. Nat., i, 1891, entr. 4a, 



P- 254. 



24. Cabassous centralis (Miller). 



Tatoua (Ziphila) centralis Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, 



1899, pp. 4, 7- 

 Xenurus cinereus hispidus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, p. 345. 



