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only slightly towards tlie end where it is rounded, and almost trun- 

 cate. Jn the shortness of the head and the general form of its upper 

 part, the Man. Teniminckil bears nearly the same relation to the 

 Man. Javanica, as is borne by the Weasel-headed Armadillo, Da- 

 sypus 9-ciuctus, Linn., to the six-banded. Das. 6-cinctus, Ej. Of the 

 eleven series of scales on the body, one on each side is ventral rather 

 than dorsal. The scales are very large, longitudinally striate, smooth 

 as though rubbed towards their hinder margin, and slightlj' pro- 

 duced into a thin;Short, and rounded process: they are comparatively 

 few in number, the large scales of the middle line of the back from 

 t\\e occipiit to the tip of the tail being twenty only in number; in 

 Man. pentadactyla, Linn., they are about thirty ; and in Man. Ja- 

 vanica, Desm., they vary from about forty-five to fifty. A pecu- 

 liarity in the distribution of the scales of Man. Temminckii is the 

 cessation of the middle series of them at a short distance anterior 

 to the extremity of the tail, so that the last four transverse rows 

 consist of four scales each, each of the preceding ones having five. 



Some notes by Mr. Rymer Jones of the dissection of an Agouti, 

 Dasyprocta. ylguti, 111., were read. 



The animal was a malej adult; measuring 19Ath inches from 

 the extremity of the jaws to the root of the tail ; and weighing 4lbs. 

 ^Jj^oz. Its head measured 41^ inches in length ; the tail, l-rV* 



The testes were situated within the abdomen, in contact with the 

 abdominal muscles, to which they were connected by a duplicature 

 of j}eriloneum ; the epididymis, contained in a pouch apparently 

 formed by the cremaster muscle, protruded through the internal ob- 

 lique. The preputial orifice was l^v '"ch from the anus. 



The stomach, 5^ inches long and 8 inches in its greatest circum- 

 ference when moderately distended, had a remarkable constriction 

 between its cardiac and pyloric portions which gave it the appear- 

 ance of consisting of two distinct cavities ; the pyloric portion 

 bulged out on each side of the pylorus so as to make the duodenum 

 commence from a central depression. 



The omentum was shrivelled up under the stomach, and reached, 

 when unfolded, rather more than half way to the pubes : it extended 

 further on the right side than on the left. 



The intestines measured in total length 253 inches. The length 

 of the small intestines was 222 inches, and their greatest circum- 

 ference (at the duodenum) l^V ; the cacum was 6 inches long, and 

 its greatest circumference 2-rV ; the large intestines measured 25 

 inches, the greatest circumference being at the commencement of 

 the colon, where it was 2 inches, and whence it gradually tapered 

 towards the rectum v/hich was only -rV in circumference. There 

 were two glands, each ^V of an inch in length, and placed on each 

 side of the anus : they secrete a yellow substance resembling the 

 cerumen of the ear and of a fragrant odour. 



The liver, weighing 44^oz., occupied the usual situation, and con- 



