TECHNICAL HISTORY GENERA. 



Swainson, 1821), and in 1873* instituted the genus Histriophoca 

 for the Phoca fasciata of Shaw (= P. equestris, Pallas). 



Peters, in 1875, t finding that the old generic name Stenorhyn- 

 'dius of F. Cuvier, which had been currently received since 1824 

 .as the generic designation of the Sea-Leopard of the Antarctic 

 Seas, was preoccupied for a genus of Crustaceans to which it was 

 applied by Lainark in 1819, as well as for a genus of insects 

 in 1823, proposed in its place the name Ogmorhinus. Finally 

 Gill has recently revived the name Pusa (Scopoli, 1777) for the 

 Gray Seal in place of Haliclicerus, Nilsson, 1820, but, as will be 

 shown later, Pusa is not tenable in this connection. 



At this point the following resume of the subject may be pre- 

 sented, synonyms and untenable names being designated by 

 thick type : 



1735 Phoca, Limi6, covering four species, belonging to three families and 



four distinct genera. 



1777 Pusa, Scopoli, = Phoca fcetida, Fabricius. 

 1 g ( Halichcerus, Nilsson,=Pftoca grypus, Fabricius. 

 \ Cystophora, Nilsson,=P/ioca cristata, Erxleben. 

 1822 Monachus, Fleming, = Phoca monachus, Hermann. 



f Callocephalus, F. Cuvier, type, Phoca vitulina, Linne*. 



Stenorhynchus, F. Cuvier, = Phoca leptonyx, Blainville. Preoccn- 

 J pied in carcinology and entomology. 



I Pelagius, F. Cuvier, = Phoca monachus, Hermann. 

 I Stemmatopus, F. Cuvier, = Phoca cristata, Erxleben. 

 ^Macrorhinus, F. Cuvier, = Phoca leonina, Linne*. 



1827 Mirounga, Gray, = Cystophora, Nilsson, and Maerorhinus, F. Cuvier. 

 1830 Rhinophora, Wagler,=PAoca leonina, Linn^. 

 1836 Leptonyx, Gray, = Stenorhynchus iveddelli, F. Cuvier. Preoccupied in 



ornithology. 



(Pagophilus, Gray, = Phoca grcenlandica, Fabricius. 

 J Lolodon, Gray, = Phoca carcinophaga, Homb. and Jacq 

 I Ommatophoca, Gray, = 0. rossi, n. sp.,, Gray, 

 t Phoca, Gray, iiec Linn^,=P^oca &ar&a/a, Fabricius. 



1854 Heliophoca, Giay,=H. atlantica n. sp., Gray,=P^oca monachus, Her- 

 mann. 



( Halicyon, Gray,=T. richardsin. sp., GT&J Phoca vitulina, 

 i Pagomys, Gray, = Phoca foctida, Fabricius. 



( Erignathus, Gill, = P^oca barbata, Fabricius. 

 1866^ Haliphilus, Gra,y,=Halicho2ru8 antarcticus, Peale,= Phoca vitulina, 



( Linne". 



1872 Leptoni/chotes, Q\\\,=Lepionyx, Gray, nee Swainson. 

 1873 Histriophoca, Gill, = Phoca fasciata, Shaw. 

 1875 Ogmorhinus, Peters, = Stenorhynchus, F. Cuvier, nee Lamark. 



Of the above-given list of twenty-five generic names, two 



*Amer. Nat,, vol. vii, 1873, p. 179. 



tMonatsb. Kongl. Prenss. Akad. d Wissens. zu Berlin, 1875, p. 393. 



