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vnociDM. 



Sect. I. Grinders ^t^, two-rooted ; cars none; toes simpk, of the fore feet 

 short, of the hind feet unequal, the outer on each side longest, the middle 

 shortest ; the pabns and soles hairy. (See fig. 1.) 



The skiill has no postorbital process nor alisphenoid caiml. The 

 mastoid process is swollen, and seems to form part of the auditory 

 bidla. — Turner. 



Fig. 1. 



Mouachus albiventer. Fore and hind feet. 



Phoca, Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 175, 1827. 



Phoca, Sect. I., F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. xi. ; Nilsson, Wieym. Arch, 



vii. 306 ; Skand. Fauna, n. xx. 

 Phocidse seu Brachiodontia, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 36, 1828. 

 Phoques, les dents ont les racines multiples, I. Cuvier, Dents des 



Manim. 116. t. 38, 1825. 

 Phocina (part.), Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, 88. 

 Phocidae, § 1, Gray, Cat. Seeds B. M. 5-8. 



Subfamily 1. STENORHYNCHINA. 



Cutting -teeth ^ ; hind feet nearly claivless ; mnffie hairy to the edge 

 and between the nostrils ; fore feet triangular ; wrist very short. 



Stenorhvnchina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340; 3Ia(/. N.H. i. 583, 1837; 

 Zool. Erehus ^ Terror ; Cat. Seals B. M. 5, 8, 1850. 



* The first, second, and third front apper and the first front lower yrinders 

 sinyle-rooted, the rest tioo-rooted ; lower jaw moderate, rather weak; 

 orbits large. 



1. LOBODON. 



Skull elongate ; muzzle elongate ; grinders rather compressed, with 

 a large lobe in front, and three lobes behind the larger central one. 



Head elongate ; car-conch none externally ; muzzle broad ; nostrils 

 ovate, hairy to the edge ; whiskers rigid, tapering, waved. Skull 

 elongate, rather depressed ; nose broad, rather produced ; orbits 



