28 SEALS. 
Phoca leporina, Lepech. Act. Petrop. 1. 264. t. 8,9; Fab. Skriv. 
Natur. Selsk.i. 164; Fischer, Syn. 237; Gray, G. A. K.v. 178. 
Phoca Lepechinu, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xii. 415. 
Callocephalus Leporius, F. Cuv. Dict. Sci. Nat. xxxix. 545. 
? Phoca maxima, Steller, Nov. Comm. Petrop. ii. 290. 
Phoca albigena, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. 107. 
Leporine Seal, Penn. Quad. 177. 
? Sea Calf, Parsons, Phil. Trans. n. 469. 383.t. 1. f. 1; cop. 
Buffon, H. N. Supp. vi. t. 14. 
Phoca Parsonii, Lesson, Dict. Class. H. N. xi. 414. 
? Long-bodied Seal, Parsons, Phil. Trans. xlvu. 121, cop. 
? Grand Phoque, Buffon, H. N. xii. 333. 
? Great Seal, Penn. Syn. 341. 
Inhab. North Sea and Japan, according to Temm. 
Skin sold as an article of commerce in Japan.—Temm. 
a. Skeleton. Length 8 feet. North Sea. Mr. Brandt’s Col- 
lection. 
4. Skin. Adult. North Sea. Mr. Warwick’s Collection. 
The Lachtak, Steller, Nov. Comm. Petrop. u. 290=Phoca 
Lachtak, Desm. N. Dict. H. N. xxv. 588=Phoca nautica, Pallas, 
Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 108—of Behring’s Straits, have been referred _ 
to Phoca barbata, but Pallas describes the fingers as subequal 
and webbed to the end, which scarcely agrees with that animal. 
The body is ventricose; the hair very short (5 lines), rigid, 
silver-grey; back brown lettered; tail very short. 
The Maraku=Phoca ochotensis, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 
117—with soft fur and pure white when young, from the North 
Pacific, also requires further examination. 
2, PHocA TROPICALIS. JAMAICA SEAL. 
Grey-brown ; hair very short, strap-shaped, closely adpressed, 
black with a slight grey tip; whiskers short, thick, cylindrical, 
regularly tapering, without any appearance of wave or twist; 
fingers gradually shorter. 
Inhab. Jamaica. 
a. Skin imperfect, without skull. 
Skin referred to in description of Cystophora antillarum, Gray, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 93. 
Sect. II. Grinders 3 or £2 with single root (except the two 
hinder grinders of Halichcerus). 
a. Ears, conch none. Toes simple. of fore-feet exserted, of 
hind-feet large ; the inner and outer ones large, long, the 
three middle ones smaller: palm and soles hairy (some- 
