METACHIRUS CABASSOUS TATU MYRMECOPHAGA. 3 



Genus METACHIRUS. 

 Metachirus fuscogriseus pallidus Allen. Biological Survey collection. 



IJiill. Amor. Mus. Nat. Hist.. XIV. \>]>. 217. 217, July ?,. 1001. 



58158. Skin and skull. Adult male. Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 January 24, 181)4 (not June 24, 1804, as in original description). 

 Collected by E. W. Nelson ami E. A. Goldman. Original number 

 5740. 



Well-made skin in j,'ood condition: skull perfect. 



Order EDENTATA. 



Family DASYPODID.E. 



Genus CABASSOUS. 



Tatoua (Ziphila) centralis Miller. 



Troc. lljol. S<K-. Wash.. XIII. p. 4. liu's. 1. 2. January ;>1. 1S<)!>. 



= Cabassous centralis (Miller). See rainier, Proc. I5i(>l. Soc. Wash., XIII, 

 p. 72, September 28, l.S!»9. 



Hill- Skin and skull. Adult female. Cliamelicon. Hondura.s. 

 January 8, 1891. Collected by Erich Wittkiigel. Original num- 

 ber 8. Catalogued May 23, 1891. 



Formerly mounted ; now a well-made skin in j^ood condition, nine ov ten 

 scales missiuii from carapace. Skull nearly i)erfect : somewhat injured 

 ain)Ut the bullie. All the teeth in upper .jaws lost except first left premolar; 

 all in the lower jaw present except the first left premolar. 



Genus TATU. 



Tatu novemcinctum texanum Hailev. Biological Survey collection. 

 .North Amer. Fauna, Xo. 25, pp. 52-.5(j, fiss. 5-7, October 24, T.K*.";. 



litis- Skin and skull. Adult male. Brownsville. Texas. Jinie 10, 

 1892 (not 1902 as in original description). Collected by F. B. 

 Armstrong. Original number 4, 



Well-made sjvin in i^ood condition: skull perfect. 



Family MYRMECOPHAGID.E. 



Genus MYRMECOPHAGA. 



Myrmecophaga centralis Lyon. 



I'roc. r. S. Xat. .Mus., XXXI, Xo. 14!h;, ]). 570, pi. 14, tigs. 1, n. Xovember 

 14, 1900. 



159G8. Skull (no >kin). Young adult, ]^u•ua re. Costa Rica. June. 



1870. Collected by Jose C. Zeledon. Original number 8G. Cata- 

 logued Jinie 10. 1878. 



Skull perfect; no record of a skin. 



