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Typus Anomiopsis. 



Pedes elongati, tihia intermedise curvatse bicalcaratae, calcaribus 

 mobilibus intemo, elongato acuto, externo breviori spatuliformi, tarsi 

 pedum anticorum obsoleti, ąuatuor posticorum depressi setosi, un- 

 guibus nullis ; palpi maxill£ires filiformibus, articulis tribus ultimis 

 longitudine fere aeąualibus ; lablales diflFonnes, articulo 2do maximo 

 transverso-ovato, ultimo minutissimo intemė et obliquė inserto. 



Aniomiopsis Dioscorides. 

 Ater, nitidus punctatissimus ; elytris 6-punctato-striatis ; capitis 



thoracisąue hiterihus, femoribus arUids tarsisąue guatuor posticis 



longe rufo-hirtis, 

 Long. corp. 13 lin. Mus. P. Walkeret C. Danvin. 

 Hab. Patagoni4. 



Anomiopsis Steequilintjs. 



Ater, nitidtis punctatissimus, convexus, capite comu elevato verti- 

 cali, thorace impressione centrali valde irregulari, elytris semi- 

 circularibus striis sex simplicibus in singulo, capite thorace tar- 

 sisąue breviter rufo-hirtis. 



Long. corp. 10 lin. Habitat. — ? Mus. P. Walker. 



Mr. Martin called the attention of the meeting to a specimen of 

 the Dasypus hybridus, in the coUection presented to the Society by 



C. Darwin, Esq. This animal, the tatou mulet of Azara, has been 

 characterised in all systematic w'orks, as closely related to Dasypus 

 Peba, and as having large ears ; -n-hereas the ears are much smaller 

 than in D. Peba, and but little larger than those of D. minutus. In 

 reference to this species, which he at first \vas unable satisfactorily 

 to identify, he observed that the vague and unsatisfactory account 

 given in systematic M'orks would, he eonceived, justify him in laying 

 before the meeting a more complete and deflnite description of the 

 animal than he had been able to meet -nith, the want of -vvhich he 

 had himself experienced, which he thus ventured to supply, 



In Dasypus hybridus the contour of the body is short and stout, 

 the limbs are robust, and the muzzle is shorter in proportion than in 



D. Peba. The admeasurements of the specimen in question are as 

 follows : 



inch. lin. 



Length from the tip of the nose over the baek 1 , o 



to the root of the tail / ^"^ ^ 



from the top of the frontai plate to 1 „ „ 



the end of the nose J 



from the anterior angle of eye to 1 _ 



end of nose j 



from the šame to base of ear 1 5 



of ears O 10 



Extent of shoulder plate, from back of neck 1 o i n 



to its posterior edge j 



