SPECIES. 209 



II. Genus PHOCARCTOS, Peters. 



Arctocepnalus, in part, of GRAY, prior to 1866. 



Phocarctos (subgenus), PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866, 269. 



CHAR. GEN. Palatine bones ending considerably in front of the pterygoid 

 processes, deeply concave in front, narrowed and emarginate behind. Mo- 

 la , 6-6 _ 12 



lars 5H5 ID- 



2. Phocarctos hookeri (Gray) Peters. 



Arctocephalus hookeri, GRAY, "Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, pll. xiv, xv"; 

 Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 53, fig. 15. 



Phocarctos hookeri, GRAY, Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 15; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 29, pi. xx. 



Otaria jubata, ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1870, 45 (in part). 



Otaria hookeri, CLARK, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 754, figs. 



HABITAT. Auckland Islands. (Originally described from specimens sup- 

 posed to have come from the ' ' Falkland Islands and Cape Horn." See Clark, 

 as above cited, and Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., vol. xiv, 1874, 

 pp. 26-30.) 



III. Genus EUMETOPIAS, Gill. 



Otaria, in part, of earlier authors. 



Eumetopias, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst.,v, 1866, 7, 11. 



CHAR. GEN. Palatine bones ending very far in front of pterygoid pro- 

 cesses, flat, or nearly so; hinder border hollowed or emarginate. Molars 

 Jr^g = 01 fifth pair separated by a considerable space from the fourth pair. 



3. Eumetopias stelleri Peters.* 



HABITAT. Pacific coast of North America from California to Alaska; 

 Pacific coast of Asia from Japan northward. 



i 

 IV. Genus ZALOPHUS, Gill. 



Arctocephalus, in part, of GRAY, prior to 1866. 



Zalophus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11. 



Neophoca, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xviii, 1866, 231; Suppl. 



Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 28. 

 Eumetopias, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1877, 506 (in part). 



CHAR. GEN. Palatine much as in Eumetopias. Sagittal crest very high. 

 Interorbital region greatly constricted. Molars |^| = ~j, in a continuous 

 series. . 



4. Zalophus californianus (Lesson) Allen.t 



HABITAT. Coast of California. 



5. Zalophus lobatus (Gray) Gill. . 

 f? Otaria albicollis, PERON, Voy. Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 118. 

 Otaria cinerea, GRAY, King's Narr. Austral., ii, 413. 



Arctocephalus lobatus, GRAY, "Spic. Zoolog., i, 1828, pi. "; Cat. Seals, 1850, 

 44 ; Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 50. 



* For synonymy, see infra, under the general history of Eumetopias stelleri. 

 tFor synonymy, see infra, under the general history of the species. 

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