1Q6 CAKNIVOKA. 



Suborder CARNIVORA PINNIPEDIA. 

 Family OTARIID^E. 



Genus OTARIA, Peron 1 

 (including Arctocephalus, &c.). 



Dentition:-!. | C. \, Pm. J, M. <*=9. 



(tarta totm, Lesson 2 . 

 Syn. Arctocephalus forsteri, Gray. 

 i?a6. Australian and New-Zealand seas. 



32173. The palatal portion of the cranium, together with numerous 

 limb-bones and vertebra? ; from Prehistoric or Pleistocene 

 deposits at Euamora, South Island, New Zealand. The 

 cranium agrees precisely with the one figured by J. W. 

 Clark in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, pi. Ixxii., showing the 

 small cusp on the anterior side only of the cheek-teeth. 

 These remains were associated with those of Dinornis and 

 a species of Dog 3 . Purchased from Walter Mantett, Esq. 



Otaria, sp. 

 Hob. New Zealand. 



32173 a. Fragment of the anterior portion of the cranium of a young 

 male of a large species, containing a canine tooth ; from 

 Prehistoric or Pleistocene deposits at Euamora, South 

 Island, New Zealand. This specimen seems too imperfect 

 for specific identification. 



Purchased from Walter Mantell, Esq. 



1 Voyage aux Terres Australes, vol. ii. p. 37, note (1816). 



2 Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xii. p. 421 (1828). 



3 The occurrence of the remains of this genus, associated with those of Din- 

 ornis and a Dog, in similar deposits is recorded by Haast in 'Nature,' vol. xiv. 

 pp. 577-578 (1876). The name of the smaller Otary there found is given as 

 Otaria cinerea ; it is, however, not improbable that that form really belongs to 

 the present species, since many crania from New Zealand have been erroneously 

 referred to 0. cinerea (vide J. W. Clark, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 196). That 

 species is characterized by the presence of fore-and-aft cusps (talons) to the 

 cheek-teeth, as is well exhibited in the figure on p. 191 of the memoir last quoted. 



