20 HAND-LIST OF 



912 /. Animal, stuffed. Head and body, 9^ in. 

 S. America. Zool. Soc. 55, 12, 24, 287. 



912 g. Animal, stuffed. Head and body, 8f in. 

 S. America, Bolivia. Bridges. 45, 11, 18, 33. 



912 h. Animal, stuffed. Head and body, 10^ in. 

 S. America. 



912 ^. Animal, stuffed. Head and body, llf in. 



S. America. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



912 b. Skeleton, and dorsal and frontal shield, 11^ in., and tail over it. 

 S. America. Zool. Soc. 67, 7, 8, 8. 



Tribe 2. PEIONODONTINA. 



Central dorsal rings numerous, 12 or 13. Shields of tail placed 

 alternately, often rudimentary. The third and fourth outer 

 hinder claws very large. Skull plano-convex, high, swollen ; 

 front constricted in the middle. Nose subcylindrical, tapering. 

 Intermaxillaries elongate, truncated behind ; toothless. The 

 digital bones of the first and second fingers very slender, of 

 the third and fourth very thick ; the lower ones very short. 

 The last bone, especially of the thu'd finger, very long compared 

 with the others. The fifth finger rudimentary, reduced to a 

 single bone. — Flotver, Manual Osteol. p. 276, fig. 102. 



-'- Teeth many, small. Tail luith rings of ivell-develojped shields. 

 Intermaxillaries broad, square behind. 



4. PEIONODOS. 



Central free rings 13 ; anterior shield of 10 — 11, and hinder of 16 

 rings. 



1. Prionodos gigas. Gray, Cat. Carniv. <&c. p. 380. 



Cheloniscus gigas, Fitz. Sitzungsberichte, 1871, p. 227. 



D. gigas, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. p. 128, t. xi. f. 1 — 5 (skeleton). 



Ba;pp, Edentata, t, iv. b. (skeleton). 



76 a. Animal, stuffed. Head and body, 34 in. 

 S. America. Bullock's Museum. 



76 b. Animal, stuffed, 37 in. 



Chili. Presented by Lieut. Mawe, R.N. 



76 a*. Skeleton, mounted. 

 S. America. 



76 b. Skeleton, unmounted. 

 S. America. 



76 c. Skull, 7i in. 



Brazils. Brandt. 46, 4, 21, 6. 



