Description of the Chtamyphorus truncatus. 237 



nails which embrace the extremity of the fingers, and resem- 

 ble more or less the nature of hoofs. 



Chlamyphorus truncatus. 

 Corpore, supra testa coriacea, postice truncata, squamis 

 rhomboideis, lineis transversis dispositis, conflata, subtus 

 capillis albis, sericeis, obtecto ; capite supra squamis testa 

 dorsali continuis, adoperto ; palmis, plantisque pentadactylis ; 

 tmguibus anterioribus longissimis, compressis ; marginibus 

 externis, mucronibusque acutis ; cauda rigida, sub abdominc 

 inflexa. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Inch. 



Total length 5-2 



Length of the head - - - - - -1*6 



Breadth between the eyes - - - - - *8 



Depth of the posterior truncated portion of the shell - 1*3 



Greatest breadth of the same - - - - 1*8 



Girth posterior to the shoulders - - - - 4* 



Length of the sole of the foot, including the nails - 1*2 

 Breadth of the foot ------ «3 



Length of the nails - - - - - *2 



Length of the hand - - - - - -1*4 



Breadth of ditto ------ -4. 



Length of the longest nail ----- -71 



Length of that portion of the tail which is free, and 



curved beneath the body - - - - - T2 



The shell which covers the body, is of a consistence some- 

 what more dense and inflexible than sole leather of equal 

 thickness. It is composed of a series of plates of a square, 

 rhomboidal, or cubical form ; each row separated by an epi- 

 dermal or membranous production, which is reflected above 

 and beneath, over the plates ; the rows include from fifteen to 

 twenty-two plates ; the shell being broadest at its posterior 



