202 FAMILY OTARIID^E. 



not known, or it may ~be a distinct species"}. 12. Euotaria com- 

 pressus (n. sp. ; hab. " South Africa? Warwick"; formerly re- 

 ferred by him to Arctocephalus hooker i as " 9 skull, South 

 Sea, Mr. Warwick's collection"*). 13. Euotaria scliistliyperoes 

 (= Arctoceplialus scliistliyperoes^ Turner, formerly referred, with- 

 out reservation, by Gray himself to his Arctoceplialus antarcticus). 

 14. Eumetopias stelleri. 15. Zaloplius gillespi. 1C. Neophoca 

 lobata. Two other species are also given, as follows : 17. " Arcto- 

 cephalus f nivosus" ( = A. antarcticus) -, 18. u Arctoceplialus f falk- 

 landicus " (=A. australis). These are Fur Seals, referred doubt- 

 fully to Arctoceplialus from lack of knowledge of the skulls. 

 The first, he says, " may be the skin of Euotaria compressa or 

 schistliyporoes w ; to the latter he refers the "Arctoceplialus yrayli r 

 and " euloplius" of Scott (see above, p. 200), the latter, however,, 

 doubtfully. 



In 1875 Dr. Peters described! still another species, based on 

 two specimens, an old male and a young female, brought home 

 by the German Transit-of-Yenus Expedition (supposed by him 

 to have both come from Kerguelen Island), to which he gave 

 the name Arctoplioca gazella. Externally A. gazella appears to 

 diifer little from the other Southern Sea Bears, the distinctive 

 characters resting in the form of the hinder border of the bony 

 palate, which has a triangular projection at the middle, in the 

 very small size of the tympanic bones, and in other details of 

 the skull-structure.:): Later he found that only one of the speci- 

 mens on which A. gazella was based came from Kerguelen 

 Island, the other having been brought either from "der Iiisel 

 St. Paul oder Amsterdam." In 1876, therefore, in referring 

 again to these specimens, after the discovery of the error in 

 locality respecting one of the specimens, he renamed the Saint 

 Paul or Amsterdam Island skin Otaria (Arctoplioca} elegans. 



In 1877, Dr. Peters again reviewed] | the whole group of 

 Eared Seal, of which he at this time recognized three genera 

 and thirteen species. He refers to having had access to much 

 new material, and it is greatly to be regretted that he has not 



* Cat. Seals, Brit. Mus., 1850, p. 46; Cat, Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 54. 



tMoiiatsb. d. k. P. Akad. Wisseusch. zu Berlin, 1875, pp. 393-399. 



iln this paper lie refers incidentally to the South American Fur Seals, 

 stating that in consequence of the reception of more material since the 

 publication of his last paper respecting them, he is led to unite the Arcto- 

 cephalus argentata with A. pliilippii, and the A. nigrescens with A. falUandica 

 (1. c., p. 395). 



Ibid., 1876, pp. 315, 316. 



|| Ibid., 1877, pp. 505-507. 



