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SPECIMENS OF PINNIPEDIA. 



(3) Arctocephalus pusillus. (Arc. pu.) 



(Fur Seal of Cape of Good Hope and of Crozet Islands.) 



Phoca piisilla, ScJireber, Die Sdugethiere, iii., 1778. 

 Arctocephalus schisthyperoes, Turner, Journ. Aiiat. and 



Phys., iii., 1868. 

 Arctocephalus delalandii, Gray, Brit. Museum Cat., 1866. 



Facial part of skull short, forehead flattened ; hard 

 palate moderately concave, scooped behind ; zygo- 

 matic breadth exceeds that of cranium ; mandible 

 with faint angle and vertically flattened sub- 

 con dyloid process. In 1868 I described the adult 

 skull No. 1, and, from the cleft state of the hinder 

 border of the palate, named it A. scliistliyperoes. It 

 is probably the adult female A. jpusillus. 

 1. Skull, adult, probably female; length 8| inches, over 

 vertex 11 j inches; zygomatic breadth 5 inches; 

 cranial breadth 3f inches. Hard palate, surface 

 moderately concave, palate bones separated by a 

 wide cleft. Length of maxillary palate 2| inches. 



3 3 11 



Mandible length 6 inches. Dentition 

 6 



c. 



1 1' 



6 



5 5 

 diastema. 



p.c. 



Large cusp with small supplementary, no 



Described by Turner, in Journ. Anat. and 

 Phys., vol. iii., 1868, as A. schisthyperoes. Palatal 

 aspect figured below. 

 Cape of Good Hope. Turner Collection. 



