ORyCTEROPODID.T:. 389 



Section III. Body covered with hair or spines, not mth armour. 



Fam. 6. ORYCTEROPODIDyE. 



Body covered with bristles. Head conical ; mouth large. Teeth 

 numerous. Toes 4.5; inner front wanting ; three middle longest. 

 Claws broad.— Gray P- ^- ^- 1865, p. 382. 



Osteoh(ni.—Cxi\{ci\ Oss. Foss. v. p. 139, 1. 12 ; Turner, P. Z. S. 

 1851, p. 220 ; Rapp, Edent. t. 4 ; Suudevall, Kong. Vet. Akad. Hand. 

 1841, X. p. 236, t. 



Myi-mecophaprina ("partly), Graij, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 190. 

 On'cteropodidfB, Turnr'r, I. c. p.' 220; Grai/, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 382. 

 Fodieutia, Gicbel, Siiugetli. p. 412. 



ORYCTEROPUS. n^/y ,,.. /q,JJ iL, 



Character of family. ^^^A 



1. Orycteropus capensis. (Aard Vark.) B.M. 



Facial line nearly straight ; the nose elongate, thick, scarcely 

 attenuated. 



Myrniecophagus capensis, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 53. 



Myi-mecophagus afra, Pall. Misc. Zool. p. 64. 



Orycteropus capensis, Geo^. ; Desm. Mamm. p. 372 ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. B. M. p. 190; P. Z. S. 1865, p. 382; Gerrard, Cat. Bones 

 B. M. p. 287; Smuts, Mam. Cap. p. 52; Sundevall, I. c. 1841, 

 p. 228; Owen, Odont. t. 76. f. 8, 9, 11, t. 77, 78; Rapp, Edent. 

 p. 13, t. 1-4 (skull) ; Duve)-noy, Ann. Sci. Nat. xix. p. 192, t. 96 

 (skull). 



Cochon-de-terre allemand, Buffon, H. N. v. t. 2 ; Camper, Act. 

 Petrop. 1777, p. 222, t. 4. f. 6 (skull). 



Orycterope, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 12 (skeleton). 



Oryct(5rope du Cap, Ciiv. Oss. Foss. v. p. 117, t. 12 (skull). 

 Hab. South Africa, Cape of Good Hope. 



2. Orycteropus aethiopicus. 



Forehead before the eyes, shelving ; the nose short, thin ; the 

 first front toe longer than the rest. 



Orycteropus aethiopicus, Sundevall, Kong. V. Akad. Hand. 1841, 

 p. 226, t. 3. f. 1-5; Rapp, Edent. p. 13; Gi-ay, P. Z. S. 1865, 

 p. 382. 



Hab. Sennaar (Hedenborff). 



I 



3. Orycteropus senegalensis 



senegalensis. Lesson, Mam. p. £ 

 . p. 192, t. 9, 1863. 



Ifah. Senegal. May be the same as the former 



? Orycteropus senegalensis. Lesson, Mam. p. 277; Ihivemoy, Ann. 

 Sci. Nat. xix. p. 192, t. 9, 1863. 



