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O. Molossina. LESSON. 

 PLATE XXIV. 



O. Molossina, Less. (Zool. de la Coq. 140.) Platyrhyncus 

 Molosinus, Less. 



LESSON and Garnot are our first authorities for this 

 species, which was captured in the Southern Ocean. 

 Lesson supposes it may be the same with one of the 

 small species alluded to by Pernetty, and with that 

 one named O. Guerin, and shortly described by 

 Q,uoy and Gaimard, as having been seen in the 

 Falkland Islands. 



Lesson describes its forms as marked and regu- 

 lar ; the head is small and round, with a face like 

 that of the mastiff; the nose is not prominent, and 

 has a groove on it ; the upper lip overhangs the 

 lower, and both are edged with short hair; the 

 whiskers are long, fawn-coloured, and cover the 

 face ; the iris is green, the eye-lashes red ; the ears 

 very small, pointed, and curled upon themselves ; 

 the fore flippers are like fins, terminated by a thick 



