196 PROCEEDINGS : BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



Genus MACRORHINUS F. Cuvier. 



1826. Macrorhinus F. CUVIER, Diet, des sci. nat., xxxix, p. 552. 

 Type. Phoca proboscidea PERON P. leoninus LINNAEUS. 



* Macrorhinus angustirostris Gill. 



1866. Macrorhinus angustirostris GILL, Proc. Chicago acad. 



sci., i, p. 33. 

 1885. Macrorhinus angustirostris TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. 



mus., vii (1884), p. 608. 1885. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Saint Bartholomew's Bay, Lower California, 



Mexico. 



Family ODOBENIDAE. 



Genus ODOBENUS Brisson. 



1762. Odobenus BRISSON, Regni anim., n ed., p. 30. Type. 

 Odobenus BRISSON = Phoca rosmarus LINNAEUS. 



According to Trouessart (Catal. mamm., pt. in, p. 453, 1897) the 

 terms applied to genera by Brisson are monomial specific names 

 without status in the Linnaean binomial system of nomenclature. 

 If this view be adopted, the proper name for the present genus is 

 Rosmarus SCOPOLI (Introd. hist, nat., p. 490, 1777, type, Phoca 

 rosmarus LINNAEUS). 



* Odobenus obesus (Illiger). 



1815. Trichechus obesus ILLIGER, Abhandl. k. preuss. Akad. 



Wissensch. Berlin, p. 64. 



1880. Odobaenus obesus ALLEN, Hist. N. Amer. pinnipeds, 

 ' p. 147. 

 1885. Odobaenus obesus TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn 



(1884), p. 608. 1885. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Coast of northeastern Asia. 



