189 
SIX-BANDED ARMADILLO. 
Dasypus Sexcinctus. Z). cingulis senis, pedibus pentadactylis . Lin. 
Syst. Nat. 54. 
Armadillo with six bands,, and £ve-toed feet. 
TatUj V. Armadillo prima Marcgravii. Raj, ^adr, 233. 
Armadillo. 0/ear. mus.p. 7. d.f, 4. 
Encoubert, ou Tatou a six bandes. Buff. 10. p. 20^. pi. 42, and 
supply, p. z^.pl. 57. 
This is also a species of great elegance; and, 
in its general appearance, much resembles the 
former ; but is furnished with six bands instead of 
three: the tail is very thick at the base, and is 
short in proportion to the animal; the claws are 
very large and strong. The bands are marked 
into oblong squares, as in the former. 
VAR. 
This animal appears to vary as to the number 
of its bands : the specimens both in the British 
and Leverian Museums having eight bands in- 
stead of six ; in all other respects they agree with 
the six-banded one. A particular character of 
this species seems to be the remarkable breadth 
and flatness of the head, which is larger in pro- 
portion than in others of the genus. The Leve- 
rian eight-banded variety is of a very fair yellow- 
ish-white: that in the British Museum is of a 
much deeper colour, approaching to an iron-grey, 
but whitish in some parts. 
