3. SMTTTSIA. 375 



Smutsia Temminckii. 



Scales striated, elongate ; of the middle series only on the base of 

 the tail. 



Mauls Temniinckii, Smtds, Mamm. C<^. p. 64; Smith, lU. S. Afr. 

 Zool. t. 7 (scales had) ; Bennett, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 81 ; Turner, 

 P. Z. S. 1851, p. 219; Oen-ard, Cat. Bones, B. M. p. 285; Sun- 

 devall, I. c, p. 260, t. 4. f. 2 (young skull and toe-bones) ; Peters, 

 Beise n. Mossamb. ii p. 174, t. 32. f. 8 (os hyoides) ; Bapp, Bdent. 

 p. 17 ; Bii^. Mm. Senck. iii. p. 179. 



Smutsia Temminckii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 369. 



Hob. Eastern Africa, Sennaar, Caffraria, Kordofan (Hedenborg), 

 Latakoo (Steedrrian). 



Sundevall figures the skull of a very young specimen of this spe- 

 cies. It is short, ventricose; the face broad, short, not half the 

 length of the brain-case ; the nasal bones are short, broad, wide 

 behind ; the lower jaw simple, without any process in the front of 

 the upper edge (see Yet. Akad. Hand. 1842, t. 4. f. 34). 



Section II. Body covered with a hony convolute armour , formed of imbedded 

 tesserce placed in transverse rings. 

 Dasypus, lAnn., Cuvier, 

 Dasipina, Oray, Mamm. B. M. p. 189. 

 Dasypodid», Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 211 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, 



p. 370. 

 Fodientia, IlUger ; Burmeister, Thiere Bras. p. 208 ; Giebel, Sdugeth. 



p. 417. 

 Loricata, Vicq-d'Azyr. 



Osteology.— ^ee Cuv. Oss. Fobs. ; Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 211. 

 Cuvier (Oss. Foss. v. p. 117. 1) divides the Armadillos into three 

 groups according to the number of the toes : — 



I. Hind feet with four claws, the two central equal: Dasypvs 

 Twveimcinctus, Linn. ^ Tatusia ; H. tricinctus, Linn. = Toly- 



II. The hind feet with five claws, one of the middle ones larger : 

 B. sexcmetvs=Doisypus; Tatou pichey and Tatou velu^Eu- 

 phractus. 

 in. The hind feet with five claws, the three outer ones very large : 

 B. unidnctw^Xenurus; Tatou geant=Prionodos. 



Cuvier observes, " The Armadillos with four toes have a short 

 penis with a large three-lobed gland, and those with five toes a very 

 long penis." The Apar (Z). tridnetus), which is arranged with those 

 having four claws, has five claws, and has a penis like those of that 

 division. 



These animals walk in three different manners, each having a 

 particular conformation of the foot for the purpose. 



The Tatusice are digitigrade. 



The Basypodes axe plantigrade. 



The TolypeutoB walk on the tips of the front claws, and may be 

 called ungiJJigrade. 



