208 FAMILY OTARIID.E. 



Synopsis of tlw Genera and Species. 

 A. Pelage harsh, without under-fur. Ears short. Molars |^ = ^, or |^-| = 



. Species generally of* large size. Color yellowish-brown ; red- 

 dish-brown when young TRICHOPHOCAC.E. 



I. Genus OTARIA, Gill ex Pcron. 



Otaria, PERON, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 37, footnote (in part). 

 [PlatyrUnchus] Platyrhinque, F. CUVIER, Me"rn. du Mus., xi, 1824, 208, pi. iv r 



fig. 2. 

 Platyrhincus, F. CUVIER, Diet, des Sc. Nat., xxxix, 1827, 555. LESSON, 



Man. de Mam., 1827, 203 (in part). 

 Otaria, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7. 



CHAR. GEN. Palatine bones extending nearly to the pterygoid processes, 

 deeply concave, truncate behind. Molars | J = ^. 



O J.U 



1. Otaria jubata ("Forster") BlainviUe. 



Phoca jubata, " FORSTER, 1775"; SCHREBER, ERXLEBEN, GMELIN, and other 



early writers. 

 Phoca jubata, FORSTER, Descrip. Anim. adLicht., 1844, 317 ( " Terra Statuum ; 



Insula Novi-anni"). 

 Otaria jubata, DESMAREST, Mam., 1820, 248 (in part), and of most recent 



writers. 



? Phoca flavcscens, SHAW, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 260 (young). 

 Otaria leonina, PERON, Voy. aux Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 40. Also of DESMAREST, 



GRAY, PETERS, and some others. 

 Platyrhincus Iconinus, F. CUVIER, LESSON. 

 Phoca byroni, BLAINVILLE, Journ. de Phys., xci, 1820, 287. DESMAREST, 



Mam., 1820, 240 (fideGraj, Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 13). 

 Otaria moRossina, LESSON et GARNOT, Voy. Coq., Zool., i, 1826, 140, pi. iii 



("IlesMalouines"). 



Platyrhyncus mollossinus et uranice, LESSON, Man. de Mam., 1827, 204. 

 Otaria pernettyi, LESSON, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., xiii, 1828, 420. 

 Otaria platyrhinchus et chilensis, MULLER, Wiegmann's Archiv fur Naturgesch., 



1841, 333. 

 Otaria leonina, godeffroyi, bymnia, et ulloce, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 



1866, 264, 266, 269, 270, 670, 671. 



Otaria ulloce, VON TSCHUDI, Fauna Peruana, 1842-44, 135, 136, pi. vi. 

 Arctocephalus falklandicus, BURMEISTER, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., 



xviii, 1866, pi. ix, figs. 1-4 (at least in part). 

 Otaria minor, et pygmcea, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., viii, 



326. 

 Otaria hookeri, SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 80. 



HABITAT. Galapagos Islands (Coll. Mus. Comp. Zool., from Hassler 

 Expedition), and coasts of South America from Peru and Chili on the Pacific 

 side, and Rio de la Plata on the Atlantic side southward. 



