Order II Edentata. 



Fam. I. Da$iypodidae. 



Bod)' covered with a bony carapace, containing seven to nine 

 movable rings in the center and on the sides; head narrow; snout 

 long, narrow, obliquely truncated; pterygoids meeting below nasal 

 passage; ears long, ovate, erect, placed on occiput, contiguous; body 

 elongate, narrow; tail long, tapering, dermal scutes forming distinct 

 rings. Front feet with four toes, hind feet with five, all with strong, 

 curved, pointed nails. 



2. Cabassous. 



M. ^ or ^=? =32 or 28. 



Cabassous. McMnrtr. Cuv. Anini. King., Am. ed. 1831, i, p. 164. Type 

 Dasy/'us itni-fimiiis, Linn. ? 



Taiusia. Less. Man. Mamm., 1827, p. 309. 



One pair of inguinal, and one pair of pectoral mammre; other 

 characters similar to those of the Family. 



3. novem=cinctus. {Dasypus), Linn. Syst. Nat., 1766, i, p. 54. 



octo-iinctits, (Linn). Schrieb. Saugt., 11, 1775, p. 222, tab., 

 Ixxiii, Ixxvi. 



pcba, Desm. Mamm., 1820, p. 368. 



lo)igicaudiis, Wied, Breit. Naturg. Bras., 1825, 11, p. 531. 



mexicanus fenestratus, Peters, M-B. Akad. Berl., 1864, p. 180. 



leptorhyncha. Gray, Handl. Edent., 1873, p. 14, pi. 2, figs. 3, 4. 



Type locality. "America meridionali." 



Geogr. Distr. Texas, south through Mexico and Central America 

 to Paraguay. 



Getil. Char. Tail as long as body without head; shield with 

 eight movable rings in the middle, and nine on the sides. Tail cov 

 ered by twelve rings, and not enveloped in a cone. Molars 32. 



Color. Skin of face flesh-color with a few yellowish hairs. 

 Head shield pale brown; shield of back black, with the scales on 

 sides yellowish white. Tail brownish black, anterior half of scales 

 yellowish white. Ears brown; toes yellowish, claws white. 



Measurements. Total length, 237; tail vertebrae. 90: hind foot. 

 31; ear, 22; length of shell, 318: width of shell, 394. 



