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XI. The Muscles of the Fore and Rind Limbs in Dasypus sexcinctus 

 By John Charles Galton, Esq., M.A., Exeter College, Oxford. 



Read June 4th, 1868. 



(Plate XLIV.) 



PROFESSOR ROLLESTON, F.R.S., my friend and former instructor, having, in the 

 early part of the present year, placed at my disposal, and afforded me every facility for 

 dissecting in the University Museum at Oxford, a specimen of the Six-handed Armadillo 

 (Dasyptt* sexcinctus), I now beg leave to lay before the Society the results of my 



investigations 



Through the courtesy of "W. H. Flower, Esq., E.R.S., Conservator of the Museum of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons, I have been enabled to check and confirm my observa- 

 tions by the examination of a male specimen of a seven-handed variety ' of the species 

 which forms the subject of the present communication. The left side only, however, 

 of this specimen was available for my purpose. The Oxford specimen was also a male, 

 which had been procured from a travelling menagerie, and had been placed in spirit in 

 May 1866. Its weight was 5 lb. 3 oz., and the principal measurements were as 



follows : — 



From tip of snout to extremity of tail 22* in. ; from tip of snout to posterior border 

 of pelvic shield 16 in. ; from posterior border of pelvic shield to extremity of tail 6} in. j 



from anus to extremity of tail 7* in. ; from tip of snout to posterior border of frontal 



shield H in. ; length of ear nearly U in. The specimen belonging to the College of 

 Surgeons was very slightly smaller. 



. tv • ^ JUA ,mrr from a striking superficial resemblance, as belonging to the genus Dasypus, 



This specimen must be regarded, api.it from a strikin D p plantigrade gait, 



since it had five toes on both fore and hind feet, apro- «£j£ As the spccime , P ^ L » 

 ears placed far apart, a series of small shields under the eye, nd a d^d , f^^. ^ „ 



determine 



^ „ tmm ^ ^^v, - ~ ^ dio-itiorade genus Jcitusia ^me vmy vwv 



'haracteristic of the genus Da, W us. The placing of the am « » Entomophagous Edentata, 



alternative) was out of the question. (See Dr. Gray on the Genera P 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 865, p. 370 et teq.) 



oc. Zool. Soc. 1 8(J5, p. 370 et seq.) rf ^^^ bands varies from seve n to eight. 



In Dasypus encoubert (Dcsm.), D. B-cmctus (Linn), tin , m ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^.^ 



according to the individual." (Art. Armadillo, ^^ ^ ^ bauds . (T his specimen was of the same size 

 Azara, moreover, mentions a female of this species w uc 1 ^ proceeds to say " J'ai vu d'autres 



nouveaux 



Paraguay 



nes n'en ont-ils que cinq." (S lis sur l'Histoire JNarartu^ ^ Saint _ M ery. Paris, 1801. Vol. ii. pp. 148-9.) 

 Felix D'Azara— traduits sur le Manuscrit inedit de l'Auteur, par collect i on f stuffed specimens of Bruta pre- 



Since the first nart of this note was written, I have seen, amo - moreover, labelled as, Do ,,„• 



(T 



Museum, one presenting 



" U theLernal characteristics of, and, moreover, labelled as, Da ,, 



sexcinctus, which had seven, well-marked, dorsal bands. 



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