34 TATU. 
leptorhyncha Gray, Handl. Edent., 1873, p. 14, pl. 2, figs. 3, 4. 
novemceinctus (Cabassous), Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., 1901, p. 4. 
NINE-BANDED ARMADILLO. Armado, Encubterto in Mexico and Cen- 
tral America. 
Type locality. ‘‘America meridionali.’’ Brazil(?) 
Geogr. Distr. ‘Texas, through Mexico and Central America to 
Paraguay. 
Genl. Char. Shield with eight movable rings in the middle, and 
nine on the sides; tail as long as body without head, covered by 
twelve rings and not enveloped in a cone; molars, 32. 
Can 
Fic. XII]. TATU NOVEMCINCTUM. NINE-BANDED ARMADILLO. 
Color. Bare skin on face flesh color with a few scattered yel- 
lowish hairs; head shield pale brown, that on the back black; 
scales on sides yellowish white; ears brown, toes yellowish with 
white claws; tail brownish black, the anterior half of scales 
yellowish white. 
Measurements. Total length, 237; tail vertebre, go; hind foot, 
31; ear, 22. Skull: total length, 70; zygomatic width, 32; across 
postorbital processes, 22; length of nasals, 17; length of upper tooth 
row, 16; length of mandible, 56; length of lower tooth row, 18. 
