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hinder edge; those on the sides of the back with many bristles on 
the lower edge. The upper part of the pelvic disk with pencils of 
bristles. 
Chlamyphorus retusus, Burmeister, Abh. Naturf. Ges. zu Halle, 
vii. 167, t. 1, 1863; Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1863, xi. 308. 
Hab. Bolivia; Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Burmeister). 
Larger than Chlamydophorus truncatus. 
Division 2. 
Body covered with hair or spines, not with armour. 
Fam, 3. OrYCTEROPODID. 
Body covered with bristles. Head conical; mouth large. Toes 
4/5; inner front wanting; three middle longest. Claws broad. 
Osteology, Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 139, t. 12; Turner, P. Z. 8. 1851, 
p- 220; Rapp, Edent. t. 4; Sundevall, Kong. Vet. Akad. Hand. 
1841, x. 236. t. 
Myrmecophagina (partly), Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 190. 
* Orycteropodide, 'Turner, 1. c. 220. 
Fodientia, Giebel, Siiugeth. 412. 
12. OrRYCTEROPUS. 
Character of family. 
1. OrycrERoOPUS CAPENSIS. Aard Vark. B.M. 
Facial line nearly straight ; the nose elongate, thick, scarcely 
attenuated. 
Myrmecophagus capensis, Gmelin, S. N. i. 53. 
M. afra, Pall. Mise. Zool. 64. 
Orycteropus capensis, Geoff.; Desm. Mamm. 372; Gray, Cat. 
Mamm. B. M. 190; Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. 287; Smuts, Man. 
Cap. 52; Sundevall, 7. c. 1841, p. 228; Owen, Odont. t. 76. f. 8, 
9, 11, t. 77, 78; Rapp, Edent. 13, t. 1-4 (skull). 
2 O. senegalensis, Lesson, Man. 277 ; Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. 
xix. 192, t. 9, 1853. 
Cochin de Terre Allemand, Buffon, H. N. v. t. 2; Camper, Act. 
Petrop. 1777, p. 222, t. 4. 6 (skull). 
Orycterope, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 12 (skeleton). 
Orycterope du Cap, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 117, t. 12 (skull). 
Hab. South Africa, Cape of Good Hope. 
2. ORYCTEROPUS ZTHIOPICUS. 
Forehead, before the eyes, shelving; the nose short, thin; the 
first front toe longer than the rest. 
Orycteropus ethiopicus, Sundevall, Kong. V. Akad. Hand. 1841, 
p- 226, t. 3. f, 1-5 ; Rapp, Edent. 13. 
Hab. Sennaar ( Hedenborg). 
