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Family DASYPODIDiE. (Armadillos). 



Subfamily Dasypodix^. 



Genus DASYPUS Linnaeus. 

 (Nine-banded Armadillos.) 



1758. Dasypus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 50. Type 

 by tautonymy, Dasypus novemcinchis Lixn.eus. 



For use of this name in place of Taiu Blumenbach (Handb. der Natur- 

 gesch., p. 74, 1779) see Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 141, March, 

 1911. 



*Dasypus novemcinctus fenestratus (Peters). 



1864. Dasypus fenestratus Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. 



Wissensch. Berlin, p. 180. 

 1911. Dasypus novemcinctus fenestratus G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 54, p. 199. July, 1911. 

 Type Locality. — Costa Kica. 



Dasypus novemcinctus hoplites G. M. Allen. 



1911. Dasypus novemcinctus hoplites G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 54, p. 195. July, 1911. 



Type Locality. — Hills back of Gouyave, Grenada, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



*Dasypus novemcinctus mexicanus Peters. 



1864. Dasypus novemcinctus var. mexicanus Peters, Monatsber. 



k. preuss. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, p. 180. 

 1905. [Tatu novemcinctum] mexicanum Bailey, North Amer. 



Fauna, No. 25, p. 52. October 24, 1905. 

 1920. D[asypus] novemcinctus mexicanus Goldman, Smiths. 



Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, p. 66. April 24, 1920. 

 Type Locality.— Mexico; name restricted by Bailey to the 



form occurring at Colima. 



t*Dasypus novemcinctus texanus (Bailey) . 



1885. Tatusia novem-cinctus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 588. 1885. (Part.) 

 1905. Tatu novemcinctum texanum Bailey, North Amer. Fauna, 



No. 25, p. 52. October 24, 1905. 



1912. Dasypus novemcinctus texanus Miller, North Amer. Land 

 Mamm. 1911, p. 378. December 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas. 



