-;6 Soutliani Cross. 



Ti/i^^A.—yo notual specimen was indicated by the describers of 

 ,hi- 1,,. , i..s. One of the specimens brought home by the French 

 An- KxptMlili.Mi is in tlie University Museum of Zoology at 



It is a skull numbered 807, and was presented to the 

 inusc'un. bv rr.)fess.)r .1. W. Chirk. Dr. S. F. Harmer has been good 

 t-nnti^'h lo infcrm me that this specimen, together with a skull of 

 < ^ " ■ nhmifx (l>c Blainville), was purchased in Paris in 1853 



,.j M. Iniimirticr. by whom they had been obtained, and "who had 

 accompanied MM. Quoy and (Jaimard on board the 'Astrolabe.' " 



Si/iioui/mi/ and /nWory.— The tooth figured by Leidy under the 

 name of S(cnorhi/nrhti.<i vctvs bears such a remarkably close resem- 

 blance to those of Lohodon carcinopliagus that I provisionally 

 r.-;ml the two species as identical. Without an actual examina- 

 tion of the tooth it is impossible to come to any final decision in 

 ivjanl to it. It is possible that there may have been some mistake 

 a> to its origin, wliich is stated to lie the Cretaceous Greensand of 

 New Jersey. 



( )wen's description of StcnorhyncJius serridens was taken from a 

 skeleton presented by Dr. McCormick, the Surgeon of H.M.S. 'Terror' 

 t«» the museum of the Koyal College of Surgeons of England. It had 

 U'cn obtained during Sir James Eoss' expedition in a high latitude 

 in the Australian seas. 



'Flic Crab-eating or Antarctic White Seal was first made known to 

 - ionce by the two good plates, the one of the animal, the other of 

 ■il.r skull, which were published in the "Zoological Atlas" of the 

 Fn-nch Voyage to the South Pole. The exact year of publication of 

 i!.<sf plates is doubtful, since the series bears only the vague date of 

 1S42 to 1853. All we know for certain is that the written descrip- 

 tion of the animal did not make its appearance until after Gray had 

 (U'soribed the skins and skulls brought home by Sir James Eoss. 

 Ciiy, however, could not but recognise his specimens as belonging to 

 ' ■ ies as that already figured; he therefore, w^hile insti- 

 ucw genus Lohodon, felt bound to accept the specific name 

 ./rt, a compliment which the French naturalists returned 

 pling the generic term proposed by the Englishman. The 

 iin»i sjKjrimens were captured on the South Polar ice, between the 

 of the Sandwich and Powel group, at a distance of 150 leagues 

 )i-n» «;iilnT. The siKJcific name had its origin in the food of the 

 h is stated to have consisted principally of shrimps 

 ;. as a result of eating which their excrement was 



stated, this species was met with by Sir James Eoss, 



