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46. 8. 7. 24 (719, b). Skull. Cape Verd. Topo-type. 



Presented hy T. Tatum, Esq., 1836. 



TJie reference of the folloiving sjiecimen to this race is 

 J] rovisio7ial : — 



65. 5. 3. 5 (719, «-). Skull. Nigeria; collected by Dr. 

 W. B. Baikie. Pur chased {Stevens), 1865. 



Subfamily ii.— DICOTYLINiE. 



Fore-feet with four and liind-feet with three complete 

 toes ; 32 teeth, the dental formula being i. §, c. \, p. f , m. |- ; 

 upper canines comparatively short, straight, and directed 

 downwards ; stomach complex ; a dorsal gland ; 2 teats ; 

 tail rudimentary ; upper ends of third and fourth metacarpals 

 and metatarsals united. 



The distribution is restricted to the New World, where 

 peccaris range from Arkansas and Texas to the Eio Negro 

 of Patagonia. 



VI. Genus DICOTYLES. 



Tayassu, Fischer, Zoognosia, vol. iii, p. 284, 1814 ; Miller, List 

 N. Amer. Mamm,. p. 384, 1912 ; recommended for suppression in 

 favour of Dicotyles hy ^^ fiat" of International Commission of 

 Zoological Nomenclature, 1914, vide Zool. Anz. vol. xliv, p. 285. 



Dicotyles, Cuvier, Begne Animal, vol. i, p. 237, 1817 ; Griffith, 

 Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 289, 1827 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1868, p. 58, Cat. Carnivora, etc. Brit. Mus. p. 851, 1869 ; Elliot, 

 Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. {Field Mus. Zool. Put.) vol. ii, p. 33, 

 1901 ; Loomis, Amer. J. Sci. vol. xxx, p. 883, 1910; Houv, Anat. 

 Eefte Wiesbaden, Abt. 1, vol. xl, p. 717, 1910. 



Notophorus, Fischer, Mem. Soc. Moscou, vol. v, p. 373, 1817. 



Diootylus, Bowdich, Anal. Nat. Classif. Mamm. p. 71, 1821. 



Adenonotus, Broohes, Cat. Mus. p. 11, 1828. 



Dyooteles, Jardine, Naturalist' s Libr., Mamm. vol. v, p. 234 (1836) ; 

 Blyth, Cuvier's Anim. Kingdom., p. 131, 1840. 



Dicotyle, Oervais and Ameghino, Mamm. Foss. Amer. Sud. p. 110, 

 1880. 



Dycotyles, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. viii, p. 54, 1896. 



Olidosus, Merria/m, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xiv, p. 120, 1901. 



Tagassu, Elliot (ex Friscli), Mamm. Mid. Amer. and W. Indies 

 (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. vol. iv), p. 66, 1904. 



Tayassus, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 658, 1904, 



