DORSAL GLANDS IN ARMADILLOS. 



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them, the topmost layer of the thickening being marked with a 

 few spots of black pigment. The glandular nature of the pits 

 was readily ascertained in the case of living adult armadillos of 



Text-fiq-. 194. 



Photograph of part of the pelvic carapace of an adult living Hairy Armadillo 

 showing the three glands on the 4th, oth, and 6th belts. (The gland-bearing 

 scute of the 6th belt was fractured and the pits being filled with secretion 

 showed up more clearly than when dry.) 



this species by squeezing the scutes bearing the scars and pressino- 

 from them drops of fluid with the same objectionable odour as 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1913, No. LXXIII. 73 



