38 



SubfamUy 4. CYSTOPHOEINA. 



Muzzle of the nudes with an injlatile appendage. Cutting -teeth |- ; 

 grinders luith a large swollen root, and a small, compressed, simple, 

 plaited croivn. Muffle hairy. 



Steiiimatopioa, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 



Cvstiiplioiiua, Gray, Zool. Erehus ^- Terror, 3; Cat. Seals B. M.S3. 



Cvstophora, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl. : Skand. Fauna : Wier/m. Arch. 



vii. 323. 

 Mii-ounga, Gray, Griffith's A. "K. v. 179, 1827. 

 Phoca, § 2, F. 'Cuvier, Mem. Mies. xi. 196. 



13. MORUNGA. 



Nose of the male with an elongated tubular proboscis ; muzzle of 

 the skuU broad, truncated in front ; forehead convex ; hinder palatine 

 bone short, transverse. Hair flat, truncated, adpressed ; whiskers 

 round, rather waved, thick. Claws, front obsolete, hinder distinct. 



Fig. 13. 



Morunga elephantina. Skull. 



The head broad, short, truncated in front, with a tuft of bristles 

 over each eye, and one on each side of the middle of the muzzle ; the 

 upper lip longer than the lower ; the forehead convex ; the nostrils 

 of the male "are wrinkled, and can be blown up into a crest" 

 (Forster), " with an elongate tubular proboscis " (Peron) ; of the 

 female simple, rounded, with a haiiy muffle between and around the 

 edge of the nostrils. 



Cutting-teeth 4) far apart, conical, the two middle iipper smaller, 

 the rest nearly equal ; the grinders with large, swollen, subcylin- 

 drical roots, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown ; the 

 hinder palatine bones short, transverse. 



