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in the Cat. Seals in the British Museum, 1850, tig. 16, as Otaria 

 leonina. 



The names of PJioca juhatn, Schreber, P. scout, Boddaert, P. An- 

 soni and P. Byronii, Blainville, and P. mohssina, Lesson, Otaria 

 Pernettyi and 0. Forsteri, Lesson, 0. chilensis and 0. platyrhynchus, 

 MiiUer, 0. Ouerinii, Quoy, and 0. Byronia, Peters, have been given 

 to various specimens of this species. 



** The head elongate : the lower jaw elongate, sides Jlat, compressed in front. 

 The loiver edye, frmn the angle to the gonyx, longer than the jaws are 

 wide at the angle. The scar of the temporal muscle on the lower jaw 

 is elongate and narroio in front. 



2. Otaeia minoe, Gray, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. 1874, xiii. p. 326. 

 (Smaller Sea-lion.) 



The palate very deep and wide, broad in front, contracted behind, 

 with the lateral processes rather contracted. 



y35 i. Skull, II5 inches long and 6| wide at condyles, of male 

 adult. The sixth upper grinder behind the hinder edge of the 

 front of the zygomatic arch ; the lower jaw 8| inches long, 

 wide and strong, contracted on the sides in front. (PI. XVl.) 

 Hah. Unknown {E. Cross). 52. 1. 5. 30. 



335 e. Skull, 12 inches long and 6| wide, wanting maxillary bones, 

 and having only the canine teeth. Palate deep, sKghtly con- 

 tracted behind ; lobes erect. Sixth upper grinder separated 

 from the fifth by a space just before the back edge of the front 

 of the zygomatic arch. Lower jaw compressed in front. 

 South America {Zool. Soc). 



These may be the same as Otaria Godeffroyi, Peters, described 

 and figured from a specimen in the Museum at Hamburg, which 

 is about the same size ; but the lower jaw in the figure is not of 

 the same shape as the lower jaw of the skuU in the Museum. 

 It and the scar of the masseter muscle are broad and rounded at 

 the end, as in the jaws of the common Sea-Lion (Otaria jubata). I 

 am inclined to think that the Hamburg skull belongs to a small 

 species allied to, or is a small variety of, the common Sea-lion 

 (Otaria jubata). 



3. Otaeia ullojs. (The Pigrny Sea-lion.) 



Otaria pygmaea, Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 1874, xiii. p. 320. 

 Otaria ullose, Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, p. 130, t. vi. (animal) ; Peters, 



3fonatsb. 1800, p. 607, t. (skull). 

 Otaria (Phocarctos) iiUose, Peters, Monatsb. 1806, p. 270. 



335_/. Skull of an adult (female ?), 9| inches long and 5| broad at 

 the condyles. The palate is very narrow, deep, scarcely wider 

 behind. The sixth upper grinder is behind the hinder edge of 

 the front of the zygomatic arch. The lower jaw is compara- 



