3. DASYPUS. 381 



Two short bands of large equal plates, not so wide as the head, 

 between the back of the head and the front edge of the scapular 

 shields. Toes 5 . 5. Teeth -^.^i the first upper in the inter- 

 maxillary. 



Encoubert, Buffon; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. ; Bapp, t. 3. f. 4, 6. 

 Dasypus, Turner, P. Z. 8. 1851, p. 214; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 375. 

 Dasypus (Euphractus), Burmeister, La Plata, ii. 1861. 

 Euphractus, Wagl. 

 Dasypus (1. Dasypus), Ba^, EcUnt. p. 7 (skuU t.). 



* Dorsal shield with two short hairs ore the hinder margin of each tessera ; 

 vmderpart of the body with scattered bristles. 



1. Dasypus sexcinctus. B.M. 



Dorsal shield bald, with two hares on the hinder side of each of 

 the dorsal tessersB. 



Dasypus sexcinctus, Linn. 8. N. p. 154 ; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 1. 11. f. 456 ; 



Oerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 286 ; Burm. Thier.Bras. p. 290 ; Owen, 



Odont. t, 86. f. 3, 4 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 189 ; P. Z. 8. 



1865, p. 375 ; Twmer, P. Z. 8. 1851, p. 214 ; Rapp, Edent. p. 7, t. 3. 



f. 4, 5 (skull). -' 



Dasypus encoubert, Desm. Mamm. p. 370. 

 Dasypus setosus, P. Max. ii. p. 520 ; Ahh. Bras. t. 

 Encoubert, Cm. Oss. Foss. v. t. 11. f. 4-6 (skull). 

 Dasypus vUlosus, Oiebel, Zeitschrift, 1861, p. 93, t. 345. f. 1 (skull). 

 Dasypus gilvipes, llUger, Abh. Berl. Akad. 

 Dasypus octodecim-cinctus, Fh-xl. 



Hah. Brazil and Paraguay. 



One of the young specimens in the British Museum has only four 

 toes on the hind feet ; but the outer toe on one foot appears to have 

 been destroyed, and on the other foot there is a scale where the 

 fifth ought to be placed. This may be the normal state of a different 

 species. 



The skuU which Giebel figures as that of B. vUlosus, Burmeister, 

 evidently belongs to this species. 



** Dorsal shield with numerous elongated bristles from the hinder edge of 

 each tessera ; underpart of body very hairy. 



2. Dasypus vellerosus, sp. nov. B.M. 



The forehead convex, with many polygonal shields; the dorsal 

 shield covered with abundant elongated bristly hairs ; the underside 

 of the body covered with close hairs. Toes 5 . 5, the outer and inner 

 hinder small. 



Dasypus vellerosus. Gray, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 376, t. 18. 



Hah. Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bridges). 



