328 MAMMALIA. 



The only genus represented in the Indian Empire is Manis, 

 which is characterised by being covered externally by large im- 

 bricated horny scales ; no teeth ; tongue long, vermiform and pro- 

 tractile ; limbs short, with five complete digits to each foot ; a dif- 

 fused and non-deciduate placenta. 



Genus CHOLOPUS. 



Cholcepus, Illiger Prodr., p. 108 (181 1). 



Cholopus didactylus. 



Bradypus didactylus, LinncEus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 51 (1766). 

 Choloepus didactylus, ///j'^er Prodr., p. 108 (181 1) ; Gray Cat. Cam. 

 Mamm., p. 3631 



Distribution. — Brazil and Guiana. 



a. Skin, skull $ Zoological Gardens. 



and bones. 



Cholopus hoffmanni. 



Cholcepus hoffmanni, Peters Monatsher. Akad. Berlin, p. 128 (1858) ; 

 Gray Cat. Cam. Mamm., p. 363 ; P. L. Sclater P. Z. S., 1872, p. 861, 

 pi. Ixxii ; Alston Biol. Centr.-Amer, Mamm., p. 186. 



Distribution. — Central and South America from Costa Rica to 

 Ecuador. 



a. Skeleton Purchased. 



mtd. 



Genus MYRMECOPHAGA. 



yiyrmecopha.ga., Ltnnesus Syst, Nat,, 12th ed. i, p. 51 (1766). 



Myrmecophaga jubata. 



Myrmecophaga jubata, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed. i, p. 52 (1766) ; Blyth 

 Cat., p. 178 ; Alston Biol. Centr. Amer.-Mamm., p. 191. 



Distribution. — America from Guatemala to Paraguay, 

 a. Stuffed A. D. Bartlett, A.S.B. 



Genus TATUSIA. 



Tatusia, £esson Man. Mamm., p. 309(1827). 



