EDENTATA, MARSUPIALIA. • 
Mamm. 23 
EDENTATA. 
Bradypodid;e. 
Bradypus tridactylus. On its placentation and affinities ; the latter 
are considered to be Lemurian rather than Edentate ; N. Joly, C. R. 
Ixxxviii. pp. 283-287, 
SCcdodon. J. Reinhardt describes the remains of this genus from 
Brazilian bone-caves in the Copenhagen Museum, belonging to G. maquin- 
ensis, Lund., and C. escrivanensis, sp. n. (foss.) (p. 264) ; he considers the 
genus to be most nearly allied to Megalonyx^ but to show certain affinities 
with Cholopus ; Dan. Selsk. Skr. (5) xii. pp. 257-349, pis. i.-v. 
\tMylodon sodalis^ sp. n. (foss.), E. D. Cope, Bull. U. S. Surv. Terr. iv. 
p. 385, Pliocene of Oregon. 
MANID.3S. 
Manis temminchi, Note on its habits j F. Holmwood, P. Z. S. 1878, 
pp. 632-633. 
Dasypodid^e. 
A. H. Carrod has notes on the anatomy of the Armadillos, and 
especially on Tolypeutes tricinctus ; P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 222-230. 
^Tolypeutes muriei, sp. n., A. H. Garrod, tom. cit. p. 223, = T, conurus^ 
Murie, nec Geoffroy [c/. Zool. Rec. ix. p. 20]. 
Chlamydophorus truncatus and Dasypus sexcinctus. M. Watson de- 
scribes and figures their male generative organs, and considers the two 
genera to be closely related ; tom. cit. pp. 673-679, pi. xliii. 
DIDBLPHIA. 
MARSUPIALIA. 
Didelphidj). 
DryolesteSf g. n. (foss.), 0. C. Marsh, Am. J. Sci. (3) xv. p. 459, pro- 
bably allied to the Opossums, but known only from a mandible. Type, 
D. priscuSy sp. n., 1. c., Upper Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains, being 
the first Jurassic Mammal discovered in N. America. 
Dasyuridj:. 
Sarcophilus ursinus. Note on its anal glands ; J. Chatin, Bull. Soc. 
Philom. (6) xi. 1877, pp. 54 & 55. 
JiPhascogale calura. On the muscles of its manus ; D. J. Cunningham, 
J. Anat. Phys. xii. pp. 434 & 444 \cf. supra, p. 3] ; (abstr.) Rep. Br. Ass. 
1877. pp. 106-111. 
