178 SPECIMENS OF PINNIPEDIA. 



2. Skull of young animal. Length 6| inches, over vertex 

 9^ inches; cranial breadth 4 inches; right zygoma 

 broken. Hard palate, length 2f inches, faintly 

 concave ; posterior border crescentic, f inch from 

 hamulars. Mandible length 4 inches, subcondylar 

 process incurved, horizontally flattened ; upper post- 

 canines partially erupted ; lower milk dentition. 

 Betsy Cove, Kerguelen. Challenger Collection. 



(5) Arctocephalus philippi. (Arc. ph.) 



(Fur Seal of Juan Fernandez.) 



Otaria philippii, Peters, Mon. d. k. preiiss. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1866. 



Peters has described this seal as a distinct species with 

 the above name. Allen regards it as A. australis. 



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Peters figures only five upper post-canmes in his 

 specimen. The specimen is too young to furnish 

 distinctive characters. It was from a pup given 

 alive to Sir Wyville Thomson, and caught at Juan 

 Fernandez. 



1. Skull with mandible. Length of animal 1 foot 1\ inches. 

 Length of skull 4| inches ; zygomatic breadth 2| 

 inches ; cranial breadth 3| inches. Hard palate 

 with posterior border concave, not reaching hamular 



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pterygoids. Milk dentition : m. ^ 9 ' ^' T T ' P'^' ^ K ' 



Mandible, length 3 inches. See Turner in Report on 

 Seals. 

 Juan Fernandez. Challenger Collection. 



Arctocephalus, sp. uncertain. 



1. Skeleton and skull of young animal. Imperfect dentition ; 

 milk canines in place, post-canines in course of 

 eruption. 

 Imbedded in guano from Chincha Islands, 1860. 



Turner Collection. 



Family IIL PHOCIDiE. 



(Earless Seals.) 



1*^0 external ear ; no scrotum ; no alisphenoid canal ; 

 inner wall of orbit complete or almost complete. 

 Hard palate with posterior border either truncated 



