EDENTATE BEASTS. 15 



large, flat, imbedded shields in several lines, the medial line con- 

 sisting of larger shields and forming a line under the orbits. Ears 

 granular. The lachrymal bone broader than high, truncated in front. 

 The lower side keeled. Nasal bone long, slender. Brain-case con- 

 tracted and impressed with a groove across the crown at the upper 

 part of the zygomatic cavity, which is short. Shields of the hinder 

 part of the crown separated from those of the occiput by a transverse 

 central groove. Crown shields in four pairs ; the two hinder pairs 

 larger and united by a straight central sutm-e, the two other pairs 

 diverging from a triangular, central crown-shield. Tail nearly as long 

 as the body and head. The under side of the neck, body, and outside 

 of legs with wliitish hairs, arising from the front edge of sunken 

 tubercles, which are largest on the under side of the body and legs. 



a. Animal, stuffed. Head and body 20 in. Tail 18^ in. 

 Skull of ''a," t. f. 

 Antioquia, Concordia. T. K. Salmon. 73, 3, 12, 2. 



Prince Neuwied has a Dasypus longicaudatus, but I do not find it 

 figm^ed in the Museum copy of his Ahhandlungen, and in the accounts of 

 it that I have seen the tail is said to be shorter than the head and body. 

 So that it cannot be this species. It is generally regarded as a name 

 for T.jpeha. 



4. Tatusia leptorhynchus. 



Frontal shield very convex, broad, rather produced and acute 

 behind between the ears. Side of the head behind the eyes with 

 two concentric ridges, each formed of a single series of oblong con- 

 vex tesserce, those of the hinder series being the largest. The whole 

 of the cheeks and under sides of the head covered with large im- 

 bedded flat shields, those immediately behind and under the orbit 

 being elongate and convex. Ears covered with scales. Skull 

 depressed behind. Forehead conxex, strongly constricted behind. 

 Nose elongate, slender. Nasal bones very slender, attenuated behind ; 

 rather more than half the distance from the end of the nose to the 

 front lateral tooth. Lachrymal bone large, nearly square, nearly as 

 high as long on the upper edge ; front edge rather arched backwards, 

 the lower one gradually tending backwards on the keel. Temporal 

 fossae small, short, liigher than long. 



a. Animal, stuffed. Body and head 18| in. Tail 16^ in. 

 Skull of " a." 



Guatemala. Salvin. 65, 5, 18, 42. 



6. Tatusia brevirosteis. 



Frontal shield very convex and rounded, rather produced behind, 

 and with a distinct cross groove. The side of the head behind the 

 eyes with two distinct ridges of tessercB, the upper one longest, and 

 formed of one series of convex tesserce, the hinder one of two series 

 of small ones. The cheeks on the front of the eye with large, naked, 

 unequal, flat tesserae in several rows. Under side of the head covered 

 with large imbedded plates in several series. Skull rather depressed, 



