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puocid.t:. 



Subfamily 4. CYSTOPHORINA. 



Muzzle of the males tvith an inJUitile appendtK/e . Cuttinrj -teeth ^ ; 

 grinders tvith a large swollen root, and a small, comjjressed, simple, 

 plaited croivn. Mujffle hairy. 



Stemmatopina, Grarj, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 



Cystophorina, Gray, Zool. Erchus S)- Terror, 3 ; Cat. Seals B. M. 33. 



Cvstophora, Nilssan, Vet. Akcul. liandl. ; Skaml. Fatiiiu : Wiajm. Arch. 



'vii. 323. 

 Mirounga, Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 179, 1827. 

 Phoca, § 2, F. 'Cuvier, Mem. 3Lis. xi. 196. 



13. MORUNGA. 



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

 the skull 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. 



Fiff. 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 wrinldcd, 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 |, far apart, conical, the two middle upper smaller, 

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

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

 hinder palatine bones short, transverse. 



