24 SEALS. 
*** Lower jaw not observed. 
4, CALLOCEPHALUS Caspicus. CASPIAN SEAL. 
on Se 
Back and sides grey-brown, decorated with irregular, thickish, 
yellowish rings; the sides of the mouth gradually of a pale yel- 
lowish ; hairs of the beard thick, pale. Length 4 feet. 
Phoca Caspica, Nilsson, Vetensk. Akad. Hand. 1837; Scand. - 
Fauna; Wiegmann, Arch. vii. 313. 
Phoca canina, var. Caspica, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 
Phoca vitulina 8. Caspia, Gmelin, S. N.; Fischer, Syn. 675; 
Gray, Griffith, A. K. v. 173. 
Callocephalus Caspicus, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 3. 
Inhab. Caspian Sea. 
5. CALLOCEPHALUS DIMIDIATUS. Norway SEAL. 
Whiskers waved, dark grey above, lips and beneath pure white. 
Phoca dimidiata, Schlegel, Mus. Leyden. 
Inhab. Norway. Mus. Leyden. 
May be only a particular state of one of the preceding species. 
6. CALLOCEPHALUS LARGHA. LARGHA SEAL. 
Muffle bald, narrow, with a central groove; whiskers com- 
pressed, waved; shining ashy white, with numerous scattered, 
small, oval black spots, smaller and closer on the back; feet 
brownish ash ; claws long, black; no under-fur. 
Young yellow; back dark grey, from the skin being visible 
through the pale hair; hair short, flattened; web baldish. 
Var. Spots larger, more equally scattered (Japan).—Skull and 
teeth like P. oceanica, Temm. 
Phoca Largha, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 113. 
Phoca nummularis, Temm. Fauna Japon. ec. 3.t.  . 
Chien de Mer de Detroit de Behring, Choris, Voy, Pictoresque, 
t. 8. 
Phoca Chorisii, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xiii. 417 ; Fischer, 
Syn. 24. 
Phogue tigre, Krachenninikow, Hist. Kamtsch. 
Phoca tigrma, Lesson, Manuel, 550. 
? Phoque de Steller, Krachenn. Descrip. Kamtsch. 107. 
Inhab. North Pacific. Japan, Mus. Leyden. East Shore, Kamt- 
sehatka, Pallas. 
