SPECIES. 209 



II. Genus PhocarctoSj Peters. 



Arctocepaalus, m part, of GRAY, prior to 1866. 



Phocarctos (subgenus), Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866, 269. 



Char. Gex. Palatine bones ending considerably in front of the pterygoid 



processes, deeply concave in front, narrowed and emarginate behind. Mo- 



-, 6 G 12 



lars F = = ,-7,. 



5 o 10 



2. Phocarctos hookeri (Gray) Peters. 



Arctocephahis hookeri, Gray, "Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, pll. xiv, xv"; 

 Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 53, fig. 15. 



Phocarctos hooleri, Gray, Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 15; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 29, pi. xx. 



Otaria jiiMta, Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1870, 45 (in part). 



Otaria hookeri, Clark, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 754, figs. 



Habitat. Auckland Islands. (Originally described from specimens smjj- 

 jjosed to have come from the ' ' Falkland Islands and Cape Horn." See Clark, 

 as above cited, and Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., vol. xiv, 1874, 



pp. 26-30.) 



III. Geims ElTMETOPiAS, Gill. 



Otaria, in part, of earlier authors. 



Eumetopias, Gill, Proc. Essex In8t.,v, 1866, 7, 11. 



Char. Gen. Palatine bones ending very far in front of pterygoid pro- 

 cesses, flat, or nearly so ; hinder border hollowed or emarginate. Molars 

 g^ = ; fifth i)air sej)arated by a considerable space from the fourth pair. 



3. Eumetopias stelleri Peters.* 



Habitat. Pacific coast of North America from California to Alaska; 

 Pacific coast of Asia from Japan northward. 



IV. Genus Zalophus, Gill. 



Arctocephalus, in part, of Gray, prior to 1866. 



Zalophus, Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11. 



Neophoca, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xviii, 1866, 231; Suppl. 



Cat. Seals and W^hales, 1871, 28. 

 Eumetopias, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1877, 506 (in part). 



Char. Gen. Palatine much as in Eumetopias. Sagittal crest very high. 

 Interorbital region greatly constricted. Molars V^^ = r-, in a continuous 

 series. 



4. Zalophus californianus (Lesson) Allen.t 



Habitat. Coast of California. 



5. Zalophus lobatus (Gray) Gill. 

 f? Otaria alUcolUs, Peron, Voy. Terr. Austr., ii, 1816, 118, 

 Otaria cinerea, Gray, King's Narr. Austral., ii, 413. 



Arctocej)halus lohatus-, Gray, "Spic. Zoolog., i, 1828, pi. "; Cat. Seals, 1850, 

 44 ; Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 50. 



* For synonymy, see infra, under the general history of Eumetopias stelleri. 

 t For synonymy, see infra, under the general history of the species. 



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