3. DASYPTJS. 381 



Two short bands of large equal plates, not so wide as the head, 

 betwet^n the back of the head and the front edge of the scapular 

 shields. Toes 5 . 5. Teeth j^^ . -Aj ; the first upper in the inter- 

 maxillary. 



Encoubert, Buffon ; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. ; Rapp, t. 3. f. 4, 5. 

 Dasypus, Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 214; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 376. 

 Dasj'pus (Eupliractus), Burmeister, La Plata, ii. 1861. 

 Euphractus, Wagl. 

 Dasj'pus (1. Dasypus), Rapp, Edent. p. 7 (skuU t.). 



* Dorsal shield with two short hairs on the hinder margin of each tessera ; 

 underpart of the body ivith scattered bristles. 



1. Dasypus sexcinctus. B.M. 



Dorsal shield bald, with two hairs on the hinder side of each of 

 the dorsal tesserae. 



Dasypus sexcinctus, Linn. S. N. p. 154 ; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 1. 11. f. 456 ; 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 286 ; Bimn. Thier.Bras. p. 290 ; Owen, 



Odont. t. 85. f. 3, 4 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 189 ; P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 375 ; Tu)7ier, P. Z.'S. 1851, p. 214 ; Rapp, Edent. p. 7, t. 3. 



f. 4, 5 (skull). 

 Dasypus encoubert, Desm. Mamm. p. 370. 

 Dasypus setosus, P. Max. ii. p. 520 ; Abh. Bras. t. 

 Encoubert, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 11. f. 4-6 (skull). 

 Dasypus villosus, Giebel, Zeitschrift, 1861, p. 93, t. 346. f. 1 (skull). 

 Dasypus gilvipes, llliyer, Abh. Berl. Akad. 

 Dasypus octodecim-ciuctus, Erxl. 



Hah. Brazil and Paraguay. 



One of the young specimens in the British Museum has only four 

 toes on the hind feet ; but the outer toe on one foot appears to have 

 been destroyed, and on the other foot there is a scale where the 

 fifth ought to be placed. This may be the normal state of a difi'erent 

 species. 



The skull which Giebel figures as that of D. villosus, Burmeister, 

 evidently belongs to this species. 



** Dorsal shield with numerous elongated bristles from the hinder edge of 

 each te.ssera ; underpart of body very hairy. 



2. Dasypus vellerosus, sp. nov. B.il. 



The forehead convex, with many polygonal shields ; the dorsal 

 shield covered with abundant elongated bristly hairs ; the underside 

 of the body covered with close hairs. Toes 5 . 5, the outer and inner 

 hinder small. 



Dasypus vellerosus. Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 376, t. 18. 



ffah. Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bridge.'!). 



