EDENTATE BEASTS. 11 



728 d. Bones of body and skull, 3Hn. 



Nepaul. 58, 6, 21, 4. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



728 e. Bones of body. 



Nepanl. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



728/. Bones of body. 



Nepaul. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



728 g. SkuU, 3| in. 

 India, 



Tribe 3. SMUTSIANA. Tail very broad, shorter than tlie body ; 

 central series of shields only contiQued on the base of the tail. 

 Ears with only a raised edge. 



5. SMUTSIA, Gray, Cat. Carniv. &c. p. 374. 



Ears without any external couch. Scales of the body in 11 series, 

 upper ones broad, the lateral series very long. Tail with two series 

 of shields on each side, lateral series very large. Feet scaly to the 

 toes. 



1. Smutsia Temminckii, Gray, Cat. Carniv. dc. p. 375. 

 Phatages giganteus and P. Hedenborgii, Fitzinger, pp. 75 — 77. 



a. Animal, stuffed, 36 in. 

 E. Africa ? 44, 10, 5, 2. 



6. Skin, unstuflfed, bad state. Tail imperfect. 

 S. Africa. 52, 3, 24, 2. 



Section 2. LOKICATA. 



The body covered with bony convolute armour, formed of bands or 

 rings of tesserce, generally revolute ; teeth many. 



Dr. Fitzinger, since he has left Vienna and gone to Munich, has 

 occupied himself in compiling monographs of various gi-oups of 

 Mammaha, from different works, having no facility for examining 

 any specimens ; and a reader might be misled by the mention 

 of the existence of certain species in the Museums of London, Leyden, 

 Berlin, &c., but he only speaks of these specimens from books, from 

 which the whole of his descriptions are taken, he never having visited 

 any of these collections. He forms sundry new genera and species, 

 from differences he thinks he has observed ia the descriptions of 

 different authors, and refers in several cases the same species to 

 more than one genus. Several continental Zoologists have come to 

 the determination of ignoring his monographs. There is no doubt 

 that this course, if possible, would be for the advantage of Zoology, 

 but unfortunately it cannot be followed. Some compiler will come, 

 who, as is often the case, from ignorance of histoiy, will consider all 

 scientific papers, especially such as are pubhshed by a National 

 Academy, as of authority, and quote them hereafter, and consider 

 them as of equal authority with the most carefully prepared mono- 

 graphs founded on the examination of specimens. 



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