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PR J. MURIE ON THE THREE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 



Similarly produced into a ridge, which.curves round the upper curvature of the latter, 

 }A' way npon the posterior lobe at the base of a small elongated elevation. ' 

 f t oTthis rido-e upon the lower half of the anterior lobe, there is a longitudinal rid 

 and above it and disconnected from it on the same side, a smaller one. When the two 

 lobes of the ear are folded together, the ridges which have been described interlock. 

 The outer surface of the lobe is covered by numerous minute horny scales, which homy 

 scales are continued aU round the margins of both lobes, and on the inner surface of 

 each lobe as far as the ridges, where they die away. From the outer surface of the 

 posterior lobe these scales are far more scanty than from that of the anterior lohe. A 

 fold of integument extends from the zygoma, just behind the eye, to the under surface 

 of the anterior row of scapular scales, and connects the sides of the head and neck 



with the scapular shield. 



^^^^._The fore foot exhibits only three toes *. Of these three toes the innermost is 

 the lon^'est, irrespectively of the .claw ; but the .middle toe is by far the stoutest. The 

 middle and inner toes are connected together as far as the root of the claw by a web-Kke 

 membrane, and the outer toe is similarly enclosed to the base of the claw. 



The nails are all convex forwards on their dorsal surface, and deeply grooved on the 



palmar surface. 

 The innermost nail is not much curved : and its inner edge is thinner and more pro- 



duced than its outer edge. Its end is obtusely pointed. The middle nail is very strong, 

 and greatly curved backwards ; it is thick upon the inner side, thin and produced on its 

 outer edge, and truncated at the extremity. The outermost nail, the smallest of all, is 

 nearly straight. It is thicker on the inner edge, produced and thinner on the outer 

 edge, and sharply pointed at its extremity. ■ 



There is this pecuharity to be noted, that in the fore limb the longitudinal axes of the 

 second and fourth digits, if produced, are the axis of the claws of those digits ; but that 

 is not the case with the axis of the middle digit, which is only coincident with that of 

 the basal half of the claw, the distal half having a gentle twist outwards. 



The scales which have been mentioned as covering especially the fore and inner face 

 of the fore limb become particularly large upon the dorsal surface of the manus, and the 

 hairs which proceed from theh- inner edges are very long. Three such scales He on the 

 inner side of the innermost digit ; but there is no trace externally of a poUex or of the 



The palmar surface is covered by a bald and wrinkled integument, on which 

 there are no callosities. 



The hind limb is exceedingly different from the fore limb. It presents three hroad 

 truncated nails, that of the middle digit being broadest and most convex from before 



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backwards, while two smaller and pointed nails con-espond to the hallux and little di 

 Tlie anterior portion of the sole of the foot corresponding with the undersurface of the 

 throe middle digits forms a broad callous cushion, on which the wei-ht of the body was 



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„ ^ , 'The specimen livin 



ilr^ Bartlett and Dr. Peters, has only three fro. 

 to be the normal numher. In oth.r r..r...,. a 



been 



informed by 



Museum 



;milar."— P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 381. 





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