1865.] OF ENTOMOPHAGOUS EDENTATA. 373 
2. TATUSIA HIRSUTA. 
Tail elongate, tapering ; the head, body, limbs, and dorsal shield 
covered with elongated hairs; the head elongate; nose slender ; 
ears large. 
Praopus hirsutus, Burm. Abhandl. Nat. Ges. Halle, 1861, p. 147; 
Reise durch d. La Plata Staaten, 1861, p. 228; Arch. f. Naturg. 
1862, p. 144. 
D. hispidus, Burm. La Plata, ii. 428. 
Hab. Guayaquil (Mus. Lima, Burmeister). 
Length of head 44, body 114, and tail 10} inches. The rings 
and the plates of the shield are very indistinctly marked, indeed only 
shown at the shoulders and by slight folds on the lower part of the 
sides. 
See also Dasypus hispidus, Burm. Thiere Brasiliens, i. 287. 
Hab. Brazil; said to be distinct from D. hirsutus, Burm. 
3. TATUSIA HYBRIDA. 
Ears above one-fourth the length of the head ; plates of the pelvic 
shield convex and elevated ; tail about half or one-third the length 
of the body. 
Dasypus hybridus, Desm. Mamm. 368; Martin, P. Z. S. 1837, 
p- 13 (anat.) ; Darwin, Voy. Beagle, i. 92. 
Tatusia hybrida, Less. Mamm. 311; Turner, P. Z. 8.1851, p. 213. 
D. (Tatusia) hybridus, Rapp, Edent. 9. 
D. septemcinctus, Schreb. Saugeth. ii. 220, t. 72 & 76. 
D. (Praopus) hybridus, Burm, La Plata, 428. 
Tatou mulet, Azara. 
Hab, Paraguay, very common; Rio Negro; North Patagonia. 
** Face attenuated; nose elongate, conical ; hinder part of palate 
broad, concave, with raised edges on the side. Praopus. 
4. TATUSIA KAPPLERI. 
Dasypus kappleri, Krauss, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1862, p. 24, t. 3. 
f. 1, 2 (skull). 
D. (Praopus) peba, Burm. 
Hab. Surinam (Krauss). 
Carapace very much like Tatusia peba; but there are two series 
of claw-like plates, with free projecting ends, on the anterior side of 
the lower part of the hind legs; there are five plates in the upper 
series. 
The skull is larger, and nose much more produced; the palate 
keeled on the sides in a line with the zygomatic arch. 
In D. peba (1. c. t. 3. f. 3, 4) the palate is rounded on the sides, 
without any keel, and the nose shorter and more slender. Neither 
of the four skulls in the British Museum is near as large as the one 
figured by Dr. Krauss ; but some of them have the palate keeled on 
the sides, more,as in his figure of 7’. kappleri than as the palate is 
represented in the one he calls 7’. peba. 
