234 BULLETIN 17 8, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Order PINNIPEDIA: Seals, Walruses 



Family OTARIIDAE: Eared Seals 



Genus ARCTOCEPHALUS E. Geoffrey and F. Cuvier 



*Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 11 : 178, July 1, 1897. 

 83617. Skull. Adult male. Collected on the beach on the west side 

 of Guadelupe Island, Lower California, Mexico, by C. H. Town- 

 send, May 22, 1892. 



Skull is an old weather-worn specimen, without teeth, and with no lower 

 jaw; Grade C. 



Family PHOCIDAE: Hair Seals 



Genus MIROUNGA Gray 



♦Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill. Lectotype. 



Proc. Essex Inst. 5: 13, 1866-1867 (communicated Oct. 16, 1865; separates 

 issued Apr. 7, 1866) ; Proc. Chicago Acad. Sci. 1 : 33, Apr. 1866. 

 =Mironnga angustirostris (Gill). See Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 95 

 (zool. ser. 4, pt. 2) : 545, 1904. 



4704. Skull. Immature female. St. Bartholomews Bay, Lower 

 California, Mexico. 1857. Collected by W. O. Ayres. Skull 

 has the following legend on it in old, much-faded writing: 

 "Macrorhinus/ * * * * Bartholemew Bay/ L. California/ 

 Sea Elephant/ * * posited Dr. Ayre /A/," and number 4704. 



Skull Grade B. Type not designated by the original describer. This 

 is the only specimen in the Museum answering to the locality and dimen- 

 sions published by T. N. Gill. It was figured by J. A. Allen (History of 

 North American Pinnipeds, figs. 57, 58, 59, 60, 1880), who designated it as 

 the type (=lectotyi>e) on p. 748, footnote to table. 



Genus PHOCA Linnaeus 

 *Halichoerus antarcticus Peale. 



U. S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Ornith.) : 30; woodcut, 31, 1848. 



—Plioca pealii Gill, Proc. Essex Inst. 5: 4, footnote, 1866-67. J. A. Allen, 



History of North American Pinnipeds, U. S. Geol. Sun'., Misc. Pub. 



12: 561, 580-582, 1880. 



=Phooa richardii richardii (Gray). See J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist. 16 : 491, Doc. 12, 1902 ; see also pp. 463, 466, and 467. 



3648. Skull only. Young adult. Said to have been collected by 

 the United States Exploring Expedition at Deception Island, 

 South Shetland Islands, October 10. Cataloged January 10, 

 1860. Gill and Allen (see references above) strongly and rightly 

 question the locality given by Peale. 



