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TOLTPEUTIDJE. 



1. Cheloniscits. Skull with a hony prominence above each orbit for at- 

 taching the frontal shield. Toes 5.5; tail conical, base thwh, end 

 broad, flat, truncated, underside flattish ; frontal shield broad and 

 arched above, 



Tolypeutesj § Ohelomscua, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 379. 



1. Tolypeutes tricinctns. (Apar.) B.M. 



Frontal shield flat, broad ; the hinder margin not produced above 

 the head ; regtdarly arched. Nape with three bony plates in front 

 of the scapular shield. Front claws fire ; the inner and outer ones 

 small ; the middle one moderately large. 



Daaypns tricinctus, JUnn. S. iV. i. p. 53 ; Schreb. Saugeth. p. 215, 



t. 71. 

 Dasypua apar, Sesm. Mamin. p. 367, t. 26. f. 3. 

 Tatusia apar, Lesson, Mam. p. 310. 

 Tatusia tricincta, Gi-ay, Cat. Mamm. S. M. p. 181 ; Oerrard, Cat. 



Bones B. M. p. 286. 

 Tolypeutes tricmctus. Turner, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 215 : Gray, P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 379. >i> > J> 



Dasypus (Tatusia) tricinctus, Bapp, Edemt. p. 9. 

 Apar, Bi^on, S. N. x. p. 206. 



Hab. Bolivia ; Buenos Ayres. 



Fig. 46. 



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Skull of Tolypeutes tricinctus. 



2. Tolypeutes, ShiU without any bony prominence above each orbit. 

 Toes 4 . 5. Tail, base broadly expanded, end conical, beneath convex. 

 Frontal shield narrow,flat. 



2. Tolypeutes conurus. (Mataco.) B.M. 



Frontal shield flat, narrow, produced behind the head into a kind 



