210 FAMILY OTARIID^. 



Neoplioca lobata, GRAY, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xviii, 1866, 231; 



Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 28 ; Hand-List Seals, 1874, 



43, pi. xxx. 

 Otaria australis, QUOY & GAIMARD, Zool. Voy. Astrolabe, i, 1830, 95; 1833, 



pi. xiv (animal), xv, figg. 3, 4 (skull), "Nouvelle Hollande.'-' 

 Arctocephalus australis, GRAY, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 57 (not Plioca 



australis of Zinimernianu and Kerr). 



Otaria stelleri, TEMMINCK, Faura Japon. (a,t least in part). 

 Phocarctos elongatus, GRAY, Hand-List of Seals, 1874, 30, pll. xxi, xxii. 

 Eumetopias cincrea, PETERS (ex Pexon), Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1877, 506. 



HABITAT. Australian Seas. Japan?? 



B. Pelage soft, with abundant under-fur. Ears longer. Molars ^^^- Size 

 smaller. Color gray ; black when young OULIPHOCAC^. 



V. Genus CALLORHINUS, Gray. 



Callorhinus, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 357. 



Arctocephalus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11 (not of F. Cuvier). 



r* f* 1 t\ 



CHAR. GEN. Facial portion of the skull short, convex. Molars jr^ = jjj- 

 6. Callorhinus ursinus Gray.* 



HABITAT. Shores of the North Pacific, from California and Japan (Peters) 

 northward. 



VI. Genus ARCTOCEPHALUS, F. Cuvier. 



[Arctocephalus'] Arctocephales, F. CUVIER, M&n. du Mus., xi, 1824, 205, pi. 

 iv, fig. 1. 



Arctocephalus, F. CUVIER, Diet, des Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1827, 554. 



Halarctus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11. 



Arctophoca, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866. 276. GRAY, Suppl. Cat. 

 Seals and Whales, 1871, 31. 



Euotaria, GRAY, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., iv, 1869, 269; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 34. 



Gypsophoca, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., iv, 1869,269; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 27. 



CHAR. GEN. Facial portion of skull slender, elongated, pointed, gently 

 declined. Molars ^^ ^, much larger than in Callorhinus. 



7. Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann) Allen. 



Plioca ursina-, in part, of various early writers. 



Plioca australis, ZIMMERMANN, Geograph. Geschichte, iii, 1782, 276 (= "Falk- 

 land Seal, Pennant, ii, 521"). KERR, Anim. King., 1792, 127 

 (=" Falkland Seal, Penn., Hist. Quad. N., 378"). 



Pltoca falJclandica, SHAW, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 256 (= "Falkland Isle Seal" of 

 Pennant the Fur Seal of the Falkland Islands). 



Otaria falklandica, DESMAREST, Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 601, and of 

 many subsequent writers. 



Otwia -s. Arctocephalus falMandicus, GRAY, PETERS, and others. 



'* For synonymy see infra, under the general history of the species. 



