298 ORDER IX. 



long, and the middle toe bearing a strong sharp 

 edged claw. 



This has eight or nine teeth on each side in both 

 jaws, and contains the Das. unicinctus of Linnseus, 

 Twelve Banded Armadillo of Pennant. 



Finally, we have the Priodontes of F. Cuvier, 

 Das. gigas, or Giant Armadillo, with long tuber- 

 culous tail, very large trenchant claws, and with 

 twenty-two or twenty-four small teeth on both sides 

 and both jaws, making eighty-eight or ninety-six 

 teeth in all. It is to this division the animal above 

 mentioned may belong, but the tail being short, 

 and very bulky at the root, makes it distinct, and 

 approaching in that particular to a fossil species of 

 enormous size. The Giant Armadillo does not 

 weigh more than 70 pounds. 



The next genus is that of CHLAMYPHORUS, Harlan, 

 known as yet to possess but one species. 



PLATE XXIII. 



WITH ten teeth on each side above and below ; five 

 toes to all the feet, the claws of the anterior very 

 large, sharp, and compressed ; the back covered 

 with a series of transverse scaly pieces, broken in 

 zones or rows, but without separate solid pieces on 

 the shoulders and croup ; this covering being simply 



