142 EDENTATA. 



Family MANIDtE. 



Teeth are absent in all known forms. The limbs are short; 

 there are five digits in each foot, the terminal phalangeals being 

 long (especially in the manus), curved, and bifid at the extremity, 

 and the third digit the longest ; the proximal articular surface of 

 the proximal phalangeal is placed distally, so that the bone is not 

 bent back upon the metapodial, and there is no anchylosis of the 

 phalangeals. The humerus has an entepicondylar foramen, but there 

 is no third trochanter to the femur, and clavicles are absent. The 

 cranium is elongated and subconical, with an incomplete zygomatic 

 arch, and no distinct lachrymal ; the ramus of the mandible is 

 straight and very slender, and has neither coronoid nor angular 

 process. The superior surface of the animal is covered with im- 

 bricated horny scales, in the intervals between which scattered 

 hairs occur. 



Genus MANIS, Linn.' 

 Including Smutsia, etc., Gray. 



iiHant!^ gigant^a, Illiger^ 



This is the largest species, and attains a length of five feet. 

 Hah, West Africa (recent), and Southern India (Pleistocene). 



M. 2962. Cast of the terminal phalangeal of the third digit of the 

 right manus. The original, which is preserved in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, was obtained from the Cathedral 

 cave, Billa Surgam, Karnul district, Madras ; and is de- 

 scribed and figured by the writer in the ' PalEeontologia 

 Indica ' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. iv. p. 50, 

 pi. viii. figs. 8, 8 a. Presented hy the Director oj 



the Geological Survey of India ^ 1886. 



Family MACROTHERIIDiE. 



It is probable that teeth were present in some forms. The ter- 

 minal phalangeals, especially in Macrotherium sindiense, present a 

 considerable resemblance to those of Manis, but are shorter ; the 

 proximal phalangeals have their proximal articular surface directed 



' Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 62 (1766). 



* Abh. k. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1811, pp. 78, 84 (1815). 



