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A. Digitigrade. Thetoesof the front and hind feet separate; claws conical, 

 similar ; pdhns and soles covered with shields, without any marked heel. 

 Sead elongate, ovate; forehead rounded; nose slender; ears close to- 

 gether, on the top of the head. Body suboyUndrieal. Clioeroclila- 

 mydes. 



These animals -walk on their toes, and are very porcine in their 

 character, as -well as in the general form of the feet ; the hinder part 

 of the wrist and feet is covered with plates like the rest of the legs. 



1. TATUSIA. 



Central rings 5 to 8. Toes 4 . 5, suhequal, the two front and 

 three hinder middle largest; inlier and outer small; claws conical. 

 Tail conical, elongate, annulated ; lower rings of two or three series 

 of plates. Cutting-teeth none ; grinders 8 . 8, moderate. The penis 

 short, ending in a three-lobed glani(Cuvier, v. p. 118). 



Osteology.— Bee Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 1. 10 ; Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, 

 p. 212. 



Tatus, Gesner. 



Tatusia, sp., F. Cuvier; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 371. 

 Dasypus, Wagler. 



Dasypus 2 (Tatusia), Rapp, Edent. p. 8. 



Praopus, Burmeister, Syst. Ueber. d, Thiere Brasil. i. p, 295, 1854 ; 

 Arch.f. Naturg. 1862, p. 98. 



* Face suddenly contracted ; the nose suhci/lindrical ; hinder part of palate 

 rather narrow, flat, rounded on the sides. Tatusia. 



1. Tatusia peba. 



Ears one-third of the length of the head ; shields smooth ; under- 

 side with scattered bristles ; tail as long as the body. 



Tatusia septemcincta, Gray, Cat. Mamm, B. M. p. 189; Gerrard, 



Cat. Bones B. M. p. 286 ; Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 212. 

 Dasypus septemcinctus, lAnn. Am. Acad. i. p. 281. 

 Dasypus octocinctus, Schreb. Simgeth. t. 73. 

 Dasypus novemcinctus, lAnn. 8. N. i. p. 64. 

 Dasypus niger, Illiger. 

 Dasypus Ibngicaudus, P. M. Abbild. t. 83 ? 

 Tatusia affinis, JUmd. 

 Dasypus peba, Desm. Mamm. p. 368 ; Owen. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 141 ; 



Krauss, Arch, fur Naturg. 1862, p. 20, t. 3. f. (skull). 

 Praopus 7-cinctus, Burmeister, La Plata, p. 428. 

 Tatusia peba, Owen, Odont. t. 82. f. 2 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 372. 

 Dasypus tatusia peba, Lesson ; Rapp, Edent. p. 8. 

 Praopus longicaudatus, Burm. Thier. Bras. p. 298, 1854 ; Abhandl. 



Nat. Ges. m Halle, 1861, p. 147. 

 Tatou noir, Azdra ; Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. t. 10 (skeleton), 

 Cachicame, Buffon,S:N. x. p. 215, t. 57; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. p. 124, 



t. 10 (shield). 

 ? Tatouele, Buffon, H. N. x. p. 212. 



Hah. Central and South America : Texas {Baird) ; Guiana 

 {Krauss) ; Brazil. (Pr. Max.); Paraguay (Jzara). 



