132 Mammalia of Southern Brazil. 
brane pale or milky, the color becoming less decided towards the 
margins. 
Length of head and body m. o6i; of tail .038; of head .020; of 
hind foot, 010; of third digit, .071. 
One ^ from Sao Joao. 
EDENTATA 
MYRMECOPHAGID^. 
14. Myrmecophaga jubata Linn. 
Four skins with skeletons, and three skulls, from Chapada. 
15. Myrmecophaga bivittata Desm. 
Two skins with skeletons, and two skeletons and a skull from 
Chapada ; one fresh skin purchased at Sao Joao. 
16. Myrmecophaga bivitatta straminea sp. nov. 
This species is represented by a nearly perfect skin in good pre- 
servation. Its proportions are much as in the M. bivittata, includ- 
ing the relative length of the tail. The internal claws are smaller 
than in the common species. The most obvious peculiarity is the 
color. This is a general straw-color, uninterrupted excepting by two 
black bands on the shoulders', and a black patch on the middle of 
the abdomen. The black bands commence immediately in front of 
the shoulders, and extend posteriorly over them, and terminate 
above a point about an inch posterior to the axillae, converging very 
slightly, or nearly parallel. A blackish band passes from the eye, 
which it surrounds, to the muzzle. Claws dark horn-color. 
Measurements of skin in normal proportions. 
Length to base of tail (below) 410 
f second claw (chord) 
[ third claw (chord) . 
