4. REVISION OF THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF ENTOMOPHAGOUS EDENTATA, FOUNDED ON THE EXAMINATION OF THE SPECIMENS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

Abstract

Rafinesque has described a species under the name of M. c@onyz, because he believed it had a bifid claw; but he seems to have mistaken the bone that bears the claw, which in all the species is bifid, for the claw. 1.Manis.The upper surface of the fore feet hairy, without any scales.Scales of the body slender, oblong, with nearly parallel striz.Tail much longer than the body, narrow.The central series of caudal scales continued to the end.Claws compressed; the first or outer claw of each foot very small, retracted behind.Africa.Manis, § 1, Sundevall, 7. ¢. 251.The nose bald; the side of the face, chin, underside of the body, the upper surface of the hands and wrist without scales, and covered with short hair ; the conch of the ear not developed.* Scales of the body dark brown, in eleven series.Manis. 1. Manis tonercaupa.Pangolin.B.M.