202 FAMILY OTAEIID^E. 



not known, or it may be a distinct species"). 12. Euotaria com- 

 pressus (n. sp. ; liab. "South Africa 1 ? Wtfnwcfc"; formerly re- 

 ferred by him to Arctoceplialus hookerl as "9 skull, South 

 Sea, Mr. Warwick's collection"*). 13. Euotaria schisthyperocs 

 (= Arctoceplialus scMsfhyperoes, Turner, formerly referred, with- 

 out reservation , by Gray himself to his Arctoccplia Ins an t rctic us). 

 14. Eumetopias stelleri. 15. Zaloplius (jillespi. 10. Neophoca 

 lobata. Two other species are also given, as follows : 17. "Arcto- 

 ceplialm? nivosus" ( = A. antarcticus) ; 18. "Arctocephalus? falk- 

 lanaicus " (=A. amir alls). These are Fur Seals, referred doubt : 

 fully to Arctoceplialus from lack of knowledge of the skulls. 

 The first, he says, "may be the skin of Euotaria compressa or 

 .sr/< Mlnjporoes "; to the latter he refers the li Arctoceplialus gray!! " 

 and "eulopliHs" of Scott (see above, p. 200), the latter, however, 

 doubtfully. 



In 1875 Dr. Peters described t still another species, based on 

 two specimens, an old male and a young female, brought home 

 by the German Transit-of- Venus Expedition (supposed by him 

 to have both come from Kerguelen Island), to which he gave 

 the name Arctophoca gazella. Externally A. gazella appears to 

 differ little from the other Southern Sea Bears, the distinctive 

 characters resting in the form of the hinder border of the bony 

 palate, which has a triangular projection at the middle, in the 

 very small size of the tympanic bones, and in other details of 

 the skull-structure.^ Later he found that only one of the speci- 

 mens on which A. gazella was based came from Kerguelen 

 Island, the other having been brought either from "der Insel 

 St. Paul oder Amsterdam." In 187C, therefore, in referring 

 again to these specimens, after the discovery of the error in 

 locality respecting one of the specimens, he renamed the Saint 

 Paul or Amsterdam Island skin Otaria (Arctophoca) elegan*. 



In 1877, Dr. Peters again reviewed || the whole group of 

 Eared Seal, of which he at this time recognized three genera 

 and thirteen species. He refers to having had access to much 

 new material, and it is greatly to be regretted that he has not 



*Cat. Seals, Brit, Mus.,1850,p. 46; Cat, Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 54. 



tMouatsb. d. k. P. Akad. Wisseusch. zu Berlin, 187."), pp. 393-399. 



iln this paper he refers incidentally to the South American Fur Seals, 

 stating that in consequence of the reception of more material since the 

 publication of his last paper lespectiug them, he is led to unite the Arcto- 

 cephaltts argeniata with A. pliflippii, and Ihe A. nigrescens with A. falklandica 

 (1. c., p. 395). 



v>Ibid., 1876, pp. 315, 31H. 



|| Ibid.. 1877, pp. 505-507. 



