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** Dorsal shield with numerous elongated bristles from the hinder 
edge of each tessera ; under, part of body very hairy. 
2. Dasypus VELLEROSUS, sp. nov. (PI. XVIII.) B.M. 
The forehead convex, with many polygonal shields; the dorsal 
shield covered with abundant elongated bristly hairs ; the underside 
of the body covered with close hairs. Toes 5/5, the outer and inner 
hinder small. 
Hab. Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bridges). 
* Head broad, depressed ; nose very slender, broad, depressed ; 
intermaaillary toothless. 
7. EUPHRACTUS. 
Head conical, covered with a shield of very many polygonal plates, 
with a tuft of hair under the eyes. Nape with a narrow short band 
of small plates. Dorsal disk very hairy, the first row of plates on 
the front of the scapular shield forming a free ring; the lower mar- 
ginal plates of the pelvic shield large, falcate. Tail conical, covered 
with rings of plates. Toes 5/5; claws acute, triangular, front 
largest. Skull broad, very depressed. Nose very slender, elongate ; 
intermaxillary bone toothless. Teeth —> moderate. 
Dasypus (Euphractus), partly, Burmeister. 
Euphractus, partly, Wagler. 
Dasypus, sp., Turner, P. Z.S. 1851, p. 214. 
Tatusia, sp., Burmeister. 
* Nose short, broad ; ears large. 
1. EupHractus vituosus. Peludo. B.M. 
. Muzzle broad ; ears large ; forehead broad, covered with rugulose 
tubercular plates; back covered with abundant long black hairs, 
more or less deciduous. 
Dasypus villosus, Desm. Mamm. 370; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. 
286; Turner, P. Z.S. 1851, p. 214. 
Tatusia villosa, Lesson, Man. 312. 
Dasypus (Tatusia) villosus, Rapp, Edent. 10. 
D. (Euphractus) villosus, Burmeister, La Plata, ii. 1861. 
El Peludo, Azara, ii. 140. 
Hab. Buenos Ayres, Pampas. 
The skull which Giebel (Zeitschrift, 1861, t. 345. f. 1) figures 
under the name of D. villosus is evidently that of D. seacinctus. 
*%* Nose slender, elongate ; ears small. 
2. Evpyractus minutus. Pichy. B.M. 
Nose slender, elongate ; ears small ; forehead convex, covered with 
