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only slightly tovvards the end where it is rounded, and almost trun- 

 cate. J n the shortness ot' the head and the general form of its upper 

 p.irt, the Man. Temminckii bears nearly the šame relation to the 

 Man. Jav(mica, as is borne by the Weasel-headed Armadillo, Da- 

 SĮ/pus 9-cinctus, Linn., to the six-banded, Das. 6-cincius, Ej. Of the 

 eleven series of scales on the body,one on each side is ventrai rather 

 than dorsal. The scales are very large, longitudinally striate, smooth 

 as though rubbed tovvards their hinder margin, and slightly pro- 

 duced into a thin,short, and rounded process: they are coinparatively 

 fevv in number, the large scales of the middle line of the back from 

 the occiput to the tip of the tail being tvventy only in number; in 

 Man. pentadadyla, Linn., they are about thirty ; and in Man. Ja- 

 vanica, Desm., they vary from about forty-five to fifty. A pecu- 

 liarity in the distribution of the scales of Man. Temminckii is the 

 cessation of the middle series of them at a short distance aoterior 

 to the extremity of the tail, so ihat the lašt four transverse rows 

 consist of four scales each, each of the preceding ones havingfive, 



Sonie notes by Mr. Ryraer Jonės of the dissection of an Agouti, 

 Dasyprocta. Aguti, Ill„ \vere read. 



The animal vvas a malej adult; measuring 19Ath inches from 

 the extremity of the jaws to the root of the tail ; and vveighing 4lbs. 

 44^oz. Its head measured ^nV inches in length ; the tail, \-^js. 



The testes were situated vvithin the abdomen, in contact with the 

 abdominal museles, to which they were connected by a duplicature 

 of peritoneum ; the epididymis, contained in a pouch apparently 

 formed by the cremaster musele, protruded through the internal ob- 

 lique. Thepreputial orifice vvas l^v '"ch from the anus. 



The stomach, 54- inches long and 8 inches in its greatest circumf 

 ference when moderately distended, had a remarkable constriction 

 between its cardiac and pyloric portions vvliich gavę it the appear- 

 ance of consisting of two distinct cavities ; the pyloric portion 

 bulged out on each side of the pyloms so as to make the duodenum 

 commence from a centrai depression, 



The omentum was shrivelled up under the stomach, and reached, 

 when unfolded, rather more than half way to the pubes : it extended 

 further on the right side than on the left. 



The intestines measured in totai length 253 inches. The length 

 of the small intestines was 222 inches, and their greatest circum- 

 ference (at the duodenum) ItV ; the cacum vvas 6 inches long, and 

 its greatest circumference 2-rV ; the large intestines measured 25 

 inches, the greatest circumference being at the commencement of 

 the colon, vvhere it vvas 2 inches, and vvhence it gradually tapered 

 tovvards the rectum vvhich vvas only -rV in circumference. There 

 vvere tvvo glands, each ^V of an inch in length, and placed on each 

 side of the a?2Ms : they secrete a yellovv substance resembling the 

 cerumen of the ear and of a fragrant odour. 



The liver, vveighing 4^07., occupied the usual situation, and con- 



