210 FAMILY OTARIID^. 



Neoplioca lobata, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3(1 ser., xviii, 1866, 231; 



Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 28 ; Hand-List Seals, 1874, 



43, pi. XXX. 

 Otaria australis, QuOY & Gaimard, Zool. Voy. Astrolabe, i, 1830, 95 ; 1833, 



pi. xiv (animal), xv, figg. 3,4 (skull), "Nouvelle HoUande." 

 Arctocephalus australis, Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 57 (not Fhoca 



australis of Zimmermanu and Kerr). 

 Otaria stelleri, Temmixck, Faura Japon. (at least in part). 

 Phocarctos elongatus, Gray, Hand-List of Seals, 1874, 30, pU. xxi, xxti. 

 Eumetopias diierea, Peters (ex P6ron), Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1877, 506. 



Habitat. Australian Seas. Japan ? ? 



B. Pelage soft, with abundant under-fur. Ears longer. Molars 5375=^5- Size 

 smaller. Color gray ; black when young Ouliphocac^. 



V. Gens Callorhinus, Gray. 



CallorMnus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 357. 



Arctoceplialus, Gill, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11 (not of F. Cuvier). 



66 12 

 0AR. Gen. Facial jjortion of the skull short, convex. Molars ^3^ = Jq- 



*^ 6. Callorhinus ursiuus Gray. * 



Habitat. Shores of the North Pacific, ftom California and Japan {Peters) 

 northward. 



VI. Genus Arctocephalus, F. Cuvier. 



\_Arctocephalus'\ Arctocepliales, F. Cuvier, M6m. du Mus., xi, 1824, 205, pi. 

 iv, fig. 1. 



ArctocephaJus, F. Cuvier, Diet, des Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1827, 554. 



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



Arctophoca, Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866, 276. Gray, Suppl. Cat. 

 Seals and Whales, 1871, 31. 



Euotaria, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., iv, 1869, 269; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 34. 



Gypsoplioca, GRay, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., iv, 1869,269; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 27. 



Char. Gen. Facial portion of skull slender, elongated, pointed, gently 



declined. Molars 5:^5 , much larger than in CallorMnus. 

 5 5 ~ 10' ^ 



7. Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann) Allen. 



Phoca ursina, in part, of various early writers. 



Phoca australis, Zimiviermann, Geograph. Geschichte, iii, 1782, 276 (= "Falk- 

 land Seal, Pennant, ii, 521"). Kerr, Anim. King., 1792, 127 

 (= "Falkland Seal, Penn., Hist. Quad. N., 378"). 



Phoca falklandica, Shaw, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 256 (= "Falkland Isle Seal" of 

 Pennant the Fur Seal of the Falkland Islands). 



Otaria falklandica, Desmarest, Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 601, and of 

 many subsequent writers. 



Otaria s. Arctocephahis falklandicus. Gray, Peters, and others. 



' For synonymy see infra, under the general Mstory of the species. 



