156 Dr. Harlan on a new Genus of Edentata. 



embrace the extremity of the fingers, and resemble more or less 

 the nature of hoofs. 



Chlamyphorus truncatus. 



Corpore, supra testci coriaceuy posiice truncata, squamis rhom- 

 boideis^ lineis iransversis disposiiisj conflata, subtiis capillis 

 albis, sericeiS) obtecto ; capite supra squamis testa dorsali 

 continuisy adoperto ; palmis^ plantisque pentadactylis ; un- 

 guibus anterioribus longissimis, coinpressis ', marginibus ex- 

 ternis, mucronibusqiie acutis ; cauda rigida, sub abdomine 

 inflexa. 

 Tab. vi. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Inches. ' 

 Totallength 3-2 



Length of the head 1 • 6 



Breadth between the eyes 0*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*0 



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



Breadth of the foot 0*3 



Length of the nails , 0*2 



Length of the hand 1*4 



Breadth of ditto 0-4 



Length of the longest nail • 7^ 



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



curved beneath the body 1 • 2 



The shell which covers the body is of a consistence somewhat 

 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 epidermal or membra- 

 nous 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 half, extending about one 

 half round the body ; this covering is loose throughout, excepting 

 along the spine of the back and top of the head ', being attached 

 to the back immediately above the spine, by a loose cuticulaj 



