SPECIES. 201 



In 1874, tlie same autLior* added two more " new species" of 

 'Otaria, this time whoUy from old material, from unknown locali- 

 ties, wLicli lie bad had before him in the British Museum for nearly 

 twenty years, and which he had hitherto uniformly refen'ed to 

 Otaria jiihata! Having, however, found that the lower jaws 

 differed from those of the other specimens in being " straight, 

 not bowed on the side, and elongate," and that " the scar of the 

 temporal muscle is elongate, narrow in front," instead of being 

 ^' broad, rounded in front." One of the species, based on the 

 " skull of an adult male 11^ inches long, and C^ wide at the 

 condyles," etc., he calls '''Otaria minor ^ the Smaller Sea Lion." 

 The other, based on <' the skuU of an adult (female) 9 J inches long, 

 and 5^ broad, at the condyles," he calls " Otaria pygmcea, the 

 Pigmy Sea Lion." The last-mentioned skull is " partly broken 

 behind, and wants all the grinders and the greater part of the 

 cutting teeth." They are unquestionablj" referable to the re- 

 stricted genus Otaria, and there is nothing in the descriptions 

 indicating that Dr. Gray's reference of them for twenty years 

 to 0. juhata was erroneous. The skull of Otaria minor is later 

 figured in the "Hand-List of Seals" (pi. xvi), and is evidently 

 that of a young male Otaria jubata. 



In this year (1874) also appeared the lastt of Gray's long- 

 series of publications relating to the Eared Seals, in which we 

 have his latest views respecting the species of this group. In 

 this work two other " new species " are added, making in all 

 eighteen species of Otariidw now recognized by Dr. Gray! 

 These are: 1. Otaria juhata. 2. Otaria minor {see ahoy e, lust 

 paragraph). 3. Otaria ullocc {= 0. ul low, Yon Tschudi and 

 Peters, and 0. pygmcca, Gray, both formerly, and, I believe, cor- 

 rectly, referred by him to 0. juhata). 4. GypsopJioca tropicalis 

 { = Arctocephalus cinereus). 5. Phocarctos hooJceri. 0. Phocarc- 

 tofi clongatus {=Eumetopias stelleri, in part, and Otaria stelleri, 

 Temminck, in part). 7. Callorhinus ursimis. 8. Arctocephalus 

 antarcticus. 9. Euotaria cinerea (includes Arctocephalus forsteri 

 of Gray's Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales [see above, p. 199]). 

 10. Euotaria nigrescens { = Arctocephalus australis). 11. Euota- 

 ria latirostris (n. sp., based on a skull supposed to have come 

 from the Falkland Islands, formerly referred to his A. nigres- 

 cens. He now says, " The skull may belong to the Arctocepha- 

 lus falUandicus, of which [/. c, his A. falMandicus] the skull is 



*Ann. anclMag. Nat. Hist., 4{li ser., vol. xiii, p. 324. t Hand-List of Seals^ etc. 



