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like those on Fig. 61 (g), which assimilate better perhaps with 

 the typical Jaguar rosette shown in No. 31, Fig. 59. 



Here I would note that the lumbar shield of Tolypeutes tricincta, 





FIG. 63. (a) Armour-plates of Polacanthus Foxii (Stegosauria) (reduced) ; (b] plates from 

 the tail of a Hoplophorus (one-third natural size) from Fig. 1164, Nicholson & Lydekker's 

 Palceouiology, vol. ii. ; (c] plate from Tolypeutes tricincta \ (d] plate from Priodontes Peba. 



an existing Armadillo, is composed of plates like those of Fig. 63 

 (c], and those of the Peba Armadillo (Priodontes Peba) are like 

 those of (d) of the same figure, both which assimilate with the 

 markings of the resetted Cats. 



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FIG. 64.-- -(a) Plates from shoulder and lumbar shields of Tahisia Peba, the seven-banded 

 Armadillo ; (b} plates from the Great Armadillo, Priodontes maximus. (Natural History 

 Museum. ) 



Of course in some of the modern Armadillos the shield plates 

 are much altered, but anybody can see that they consist of the 

 same elements as shown in Fig. 64 (a\ In (b) they are still more 



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