94 * PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Genus MIROUNGA Gray. 

 Macrorhine F. Cuvier, Mem. du Mus., XI, 1824, 200, pi. xiii, fig. 2, d, e, 



f. Type, Phoca proboscidea Peron = PJioca leonina Linn. 

 Machrorhinns F. Cuvier, Diet, des Sci. Nat, XXXIX, 1826, 552 ; LIX, 



1829, /^t\ = MacroyJiine, F. Cuvier, 1824. Preoccupied hy Mac ro- 



rhiniis Latreille, 1825, for a genus of Coleoptera. 

 Macrorhyna Gray, Griffith's An. King., I, 1827, 180 (err. typ. for Macro- 



r/iimis, apud Gv3.y, C2i\.. Seals, 1850, 34). 

 Mirounga Gray, Griffith's An. King., V, 1827, 179 (in part). Type, by 



elimination, Phoca proboscidea P6ron. 

 Morimga Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Mamm., 1844, 4; List 



Osteol. Spec. Br. Mus., 1847, 33- An emendation of Miroimga 



and restricted to Phoca proboscidea Peron. 

 Rhinophora Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amphib., 1830, 27. Type, Phoca pro- 

 boscidea Peron. 

 Cystophora Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Hand., 1837, — ; Arch, f Naturg., 1841, i, 



323 (in part; not of Nilsson, 1820, when Cystophora included only 



Phoca cristata Erxl.). Also of Peters, in part. 

 Physorhimis Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsbuch der Naturg., 1841, 163. Type, 



Phoca proboscidea Peron. 

 The Sea Elephant was removed from the genus Phoca in 1824 by F. 

 Cuvier as the type of a special genus to which he applied the French term 

 Macrorhine, which he first used in its proper techinal form, Macrorhinus, 

 in 1826 for the same group. In the meantime (1825) Latreille gave the 

 same name to a genus of coleopterous insects. According to present 

 usage the name Macrorhine is untenable, and its technical equivalent is 

 preoccupied by one year by Latreille's Macrorhinus. 



In 1827 Gray proposed the genus Miroimga, to include the Sea Elephant 

 and Hooded Seal, which latter had already been made the type of the 

 genus Cystophora by Nilsson in 1820. The type o{ Mirounga v^o\x\d thus 

 become, by restriction, the Sea Elephant, to which Gray himself, in 1847, 

 restricted the name, at the same time emending it to Mornnga. In 1830 

 Wagler proposed the genus Rhinophoca, with Phoca proboscidea Peron 

 as the type and only species. Gloger in 1841 again renamed the genus 

 Physorhimis. 



From the foregoing it is evident that the proper name of the Sea Ele- 

 phant group is Miroimga Gray, 1827. 



