22 HAND -LIST OF 



731 /. Skin, not stuffed. Head and body, 23^ in. Not in good state. 



S. America. 

 731 g. Animal, stuffed. Head and body, 20^ in. 



Brazils, St. Catherine's. Parzudaki. 51, 8, 25, 11. 



731 d. Skeleton, unmounted. 

 D. gymnurus. 

 S. America, Brazils. Becker. 47, 4, 63. 



731 /. Skeleton, unmounted. Skull, 4 in. 

 Dasypus gymnurus. 

 S. America. Brandt. 48, 5, 6, 15. 



731 e. Skeleton, unmounted. 

 Dasypus gymnurus. 

 S. America. Brandt. 47, 4, 5, 6. 



731 a. Skull, behind imperfect, 4 in. 

 S. America. 



2. Xenueus latirostris. 



Dorsal shields with 30 rings ; the tesserce square, with raised edges, 

 which are only on the lateral edges of the short broad tesserce, of 

 which the movable rings are composed. A series of short white hairs 

 coming out from the back edge of the tesserce. The under side of the 

 body and outside of the legs and thighs with longer, more abundant, 

 hair. The outside of the legs and thighs with distant large scales. 

 Feet covered with closer oval scales. Tail with imbedded small 

 plates. The nose of the skull is very broad, short and swollen at the 

 side. The hinder part of the zygomatic arch is very broad, much 

 dilated, and united by a long, straight suture to the prominence of the 

 OS petrosum. The articular process of the lower jaw short, nearly 

 erect, and separated from the front upper process by a semicircular 

 notch. The nose short and broad, with a convexity on each side. 



1597 a. Animal, stuffed ; male. Head and body, 15| in. 

 SkuU of " a." 



Xenurus unicinctus, var., Gray, Cat. p. 314. 



Brazils, St. Catherhae's. 51, 8, 25, 9. 



6. ZIPHILA. 



The head covered with 30 — 32 large sliields, with three odd shields 

 in an interrupted central line. Ears nakedish, with few scales on the 

 margin. The central rings of the body (12 — 13) consisting of 27 

 shields. Head elongate; crown convex, with a few large shields. 

 Four odd sliields in the central hne. The hinder very large, trans- 

 verse ; the second small, oblong, transverse, four-sided ; the third hex- 

 agonal, longer than broad. The second hinder central crown shields 

 surrounded by 3 pau's of large shields, the front pan being the longest ; 

 all surrounded by another series of 6 large shields, wliich are them- 

 selves suiTounded by a series of much smaller shields. The cheeks in 

 front of the eye with a few scattered, distant, round shields. The ears 

 nakedish, rather scaly on the edge. The three rings in front of the 



