202 FAMILY OTARIIDiE. 



not known, or it may he a distinct species'^''). 12. Euotaria com- 

 pressus (n. sp. 5 liab. " Sontli Africa'? 'Warioicli''''; formerly re- 

 ferred by liim to Arctocephalus hoolceri as "9 .skull, South 

 Sea, Mr. Warwick's collection"*). 13. Euotaria schistliyperoes 

 {=. Arctoccplialus scMsthyperoes, Turner, formerly referred, with- 

 out reservation, by Gray himself to his Arctoceplialus antarcticus). 

 14. Eumetopias stelleri. 15. Zalophus (jiUesjn. 10. Keoplioca. 

 Johata. Two other species are also given, as follows : 17. '' Arcto- 

 ceplialus f nivosus^^ { = A. antarcticus); 18. '' Arctoceplialus f falJ^- 

 landicus " {=A. australis). These are Fur Seals, referred doubt- 

 fully to Arctocepliahis from lack of knowledge of the skidls. 

 The first, he says, "may be the skin of Euotaria compressa or 

 scliisthyporoes "; to the latter he refers the '^Arctoceplialus grayiV 

 and '' euloplius''^ of Scott (see above, p. 200), the latter, however, 

 doubtfully. 



In 1875 Dr. Peters described t still another species, based on 

 two specimens, an old male and a young female, brought home 

 by the German Transit-of-Yenus Expedition (supposed by him 

 to have both come from Kerguelen Island), to which he gave 

 the name Arctoplioca gazella. Externally A. gazella appears to 

 differ little from the other Southern Sea Bears, the distinctive 

 characters resting in the form of the hinder border of the bony 

 palate, which has a triangular projection at the middle, in the 

 very small size of the tympanic bones, and in other details of 

 the skull-structure.| Later he found that only one of the speci- 

 mens on which A. gazella was based came from Kerguelen 

 Island, the other having been brought either from "der Insel 

 St. Paul Oder Amsterdam." In 1876, therefore, in referriug 

 again to these specimens, after the discovery of the error in 

 locality respecting one of the specimens, he renauied the Saint 

 Paul or Amsterdam Island skin Otaria {Arctoplioca) elegans. 



In 1877, Dr. Peters again reviewed || the whole group of 

 Eared Seal, of which he at this time recognized three genera 

 and thirteen species. He refers to having had access to much 

 new material, and it is greatly to be regretted that he has not 



*Cat. Seals, Brit. Mus., 1850, p. 16; Cat. Seals and AVliales, 1866, p. 54. 



tMouatsb. d. k. P. Akad. Wisseusch. zii Berlin, 1875, pp. 393-399. 



t In this paper he refers incidentally to the South American Fur Seals, 

 stating that in consequence of the reception of more material since the 

 Ijublication of his last paper respecting them, he is led to unite the Arcto- 

 cepliahis argeniata with A. pltilippu. and ihe A. nigrescens with A. falJclandica 

 (1. c, p. 395). 



vUbid., 1876, pp. 315, 316. 



illbid., 1877, pp. 505-507. 



