I3A1, 



]. TATTJSU. 379 



3, Tatusia hybrida. 



Ears abote one-fourth the length of the head ; plates of the pelvic 

 , shield convex and elevated ; tail about half ©r »**-third(ithe length 

 y of the body. /^ 



I Basypua hyhndua, Desm. Mam?n. ^. 368 ; Martin, P. Z. S. 1837, f. 13 

 '\j I (nm^) ; Darivin, Voy. Beagle, i. p. 92. 



Tatusia hybrida, Less. Mamm. p. 311 ; Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 213 ; 

 J Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 373. 



Dasypus (Tatusia) hybridus, JRapp, Edent. p. 9. 

 ■\ . ^Dasypus septemcinctus, ^ScAreZ*. Siiugeth. ii. p. 220, t. 72 & 76. 



sK^ Dasj-pus (Praopus) hybmus, Burm. La Plata, p. 428. r i | I 



Tatou mulet, Azara. 'J fXAMpi^ 



Hah. Paraguay, very common ; Rio Negro ; North Patagonia. ^(Cv^ ">^ /.- 



** Face attenuated ; nose elongate, conical ; hinder part of the palate Iroact,' -•- — /.. .» 

 concave, ivith raised edges on the side. Praopus. 



4. Tatusia Kappleri. 



Das-s^ua Ka.\)'pleTi, K7-ams, Arch, fitr Naturg. 1862, p. 24, t. 3. f. 1, 2 



(skull). 

 Dasj^ius (Praopus) peba, Burm. 

 Tatusia Kappleri, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 373. 



Ifab. Surinam (Krauts). 



Carapace vciy mucli like Tatusia peba ; but there are two series 

 of claw-like plates, with free projecting ends, on the anterior side of 

 the lower part of the hind legs ; there are five plates in the upper 

 series. The skull is large, and nose much more produced ; the palate 

 keeled on the sides in a line with the zygomatic arch. 



In D. ])eha (1. c. t. 3. f. 3, 4) the palate is rounded on the sides, 

 without any keel, and the nose shorter and more slender. Neither 

 of the four skuUs in the British Museiim is near as large as the one 

 figiu'ed by Dr. Krauss ; but some of them have the palate keeled on 

 the sides, more as in his figure of T. Kappleri than as the palate is 

 represented in the one he calls T. pcha. 



See Dasi/puf! punctatus, Lund ; Tatusia, sp.. Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, 

 p. 313. Defined from a denuded skin in Mus. Coll. Surg. 



B. Plautigi'ade, Palms and soles bald, callous, with a pi-ominent heel. The 

 toes of the fore feet united to the claws, compressed ; clairs compressed, 

 sharp-edged beneath. Tics of hind feet separate ; elates elongate, acute. 

 Head broad ; forehead Jl of tened ; nose short ; ears far apart, on sides 

 of the head. Body depressed. Platychlaiuydes. 



The body is depressed, expanded, more or less covered with hair, 

 which sometimes almost hides the tcssera^' of the shield. Legs short, 

 strong ; the whole of the feet applied to the ground in walking. 



