1875.] ON THE PECULIARITIES OF MADEIRAN ACHATINE. 677 
1873. Zalophus lobatus, Counsellor Seal, Scott, ‘Mammalia, 
Recent and Extinct,’ p. 21. 
Hab. King George’s Sound (Quoy §& Gaimard); Houtman’s 
Abrolhos (Gould). 
Pelage brown in males, with a distinct yellow space on the back 
of the neck ; in females grey, becoming a dirty white on the neck 
and head; red under the body. The line of demarkation between 
the red and grey is said to be very distinctly marked. No under-fur. 
Nails on all five digits of “ pes.’ Snout short ; nostrils on upper 
surface. 
Teeth 36, sometimes 34; first four upper and lower molars with 
anterior cusp; last two upper and last lower tricuspid. Skull 
.rounded behind orbits. Opening of palate wide, V-shaped. 
4, OTARIA HOOKERI. 
1844. Arctocephalus hookeri, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, 
Mammalia, p. 4. 
1871. Phocarctos hookeri, Gray, Suppl. to Cat. of Seals and 
Whales, p. 15. 
1873. Otaria hookeri, J. W. Clark, P. Z.S. p. 750. 
Hab. Auckland Island (J. W. Clark) ; Campbell Island (French 
Expedition, 1875); coast of New Zealand, subfossil (Dr. Hector). 
I suggest this rearrangement of the Australian O¢ariide with 
much diffidence, as the quantity of material at present available is 
quite insufficient for any thing like certainty respecting them. I am 
especially doubtful about the identity or difference of O. forsteri and 
O. cinerea. Allen (Jl. c. p. 40) considers that ‘ Péron, under the 
name Otaria cinerea, undoubtedly referred to Zalophus lobatus of 
recent writers.’ Still the additional cusp to the molar teeth in the 
latter would seem to preclude the possibility of their being the same. 
9. On the Generic Peculiarities of the distinctively Madeiran 
Achatine of Lowe. By the Rev. R. Boog Warson, 
F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Communicated by J. Gwyn JEerrreys, 
Esq., LL.D. 
[Received October 27, 1875.] 
I have to propose a new genus for certain species of Madeiran 
Mollusca hitherto classed as Achatine. 
The name Lovea is a tribute to the labours of Mr. Lowe in con- 
nexion with these species, as, indeed, with the whole Natural History 
of Madeira. 
The distinctive characters of the genus in which it differs from 
Achatina are:— 
The mantle extends beyond the edge of the aperture all round. 
It is thinly spread over the outside of the shell, and extends like « 
tongue backwards behind the posterior corner of the aperture. 
The tail carries a mucous gland and is abruptly truncate. 
