244 Prof. J. C. Galton on the Myology 



Hob. S $ • Pliilippines. Obtained 1867, through Mr. 

 Higgins. B.M. 



Allied to T. Henningia^ and intermediate in character be- 

 tween it and T. Pasithoe. 



4. Thyca ochreo])icta^ sp. nov, 



c? . Alffi snpra nigro-fusca3 : anticffi fcrc velut in T. Egialea, albJdo 

 fasciatgo et ciuerco punctata) : i)ostica) iis T. Henningici^ simillimae ; 

 plaga autem abdominali brcviorc ct ochracca : corpus uigro- 

 cinereum. 



Ala5 subtus iis T. Jlenningice pcrsimiles : anticfc autem fascia alba, 

 magis obliqua, striolis quinquc subapicalibus : posticse ochraceo- 

 flava?, striola basali coccinca angustiore : corpus thorace nigro, 

 abdomine albido. 



Exp. alar. unc. 2, lin. 0-uuc. 3. 



Hah. (^. Philippines, Obtained 1866 ; collected bj Herr 

 G. Semper. B.M. 



(J. Obtained 1867, through Mr. Iliggins. 



This species, though very closely allied to T. Henningia, 

 may be readily distinguished by its more arched anterior 

 wings, and the more ochraceous colouring of the yellow in the 

 posterior wings, with several other differences. It may be re- 

 garded as intermediate between T. Henningia and T. Egialea. 



XXIX. — The Myology o/ Cyclothurus didactylus. By John 

 Charles Galton, M.A., F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative 

 Anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital*. 



[Plate YIII.] 



Through the kindness of Prof. Flower, F.E.S., Conservator 

 of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, I have been 

 enabled to examine the muscles of a specimen of the Two-toed 

 Anteater [Cyclothurus didactyluSjlLesson'f). The animal Avas 



* Communicated by the Author, having been read at the Meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Exeter, 

 August 24, 1809. 



t See * Revision of the Genera and Species of Entomophagous Eden- 

 tata,' by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. (Proc. Zool. Soc. April 18G5, p. 385 and 

 pi. 10. 



No mention is made of this species of Anteater either in the French edi- 

 tion (2 vols. Paris, 1801) of Don Felix d'Azara's Essays on the Natural His- 

 torj' of the Quadrupeds of Paraguay, or in Dr. Rengger's ' Naturgeschichte 

 der Saugethiere von Paraguay,' Basel, 1830. In the first volume (the 

 only one ever published), hoAvevcr, of an English translation from the 

 original Spanish of the former author, by Mr. W. Perceval Hunter, F.G.S. 

 (Edin. 18')8), we are informed (p. Ki.^j that "Buflbn describes a third 

 species of Anteater ;" and the Don proceeds, somevs'hat scoflingly, to ques- 

 tion the correctness of the observations of this unfortunate butt of natu- 



