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PHOCID^. 



SubfamUy 4. CTSTOPHORINA. 



Muzzle of the males with an injlatile appendage. Outtmg -teeth |- ; 

 grinders with a large swollen root, and a small, compressed, simple, 

 plaited crown. Muffie hairy. 



Stemmatopina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. 



Cystopliorina, Cfray, Zool. Erehm 8r Terror, 3 ; Cat. Seals B. M. 33. 



Cystophora, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl ; Skand. Fauna : Wiegm. Arch. 



vii. 323. 

 Mirounga, Oray, Griffith's A. K. v. 179, 1827. 

 Hioca, § 2, F. Ouvier, Mem. Mm. xi. 196. 



13. MORUNGA. 



Nose of the male with an elongated tubular proboscis ; muzzle of 

 the skuU broad, truncated in front ; forehead convex ; hinder palatine 

 bone short, transverse. Hair flat, truncated, adpressed ; whiskers 

 round, rather waved, thick. Claws, front obsolete, hinder distinct. 



Fig. 13. 



Morunga elephantina. SkulL 



The head broad, short, truncated in front, with a tuft of bristles ■ 

 over each eye, and one on each side of the middle of the muzzle ; the 

 upper lip longer than the lower ; the forehead convex ; the nostrUs 

 of the male "are wrinkled, and can be blown up into a crest" 

 (Forster), " with an elongate tubular proboscis " {Peron) ; of the 

 female simple, rounded, with a hairy mufie between and around the 

 edge of the nostrils. 



Cutting-teeth -I, far apart, conical, the two middle upper smaller, 

 the rest nearly equal ; the grinders with large, swollen, subcylin- 

 drical roots, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown; the 

 hinder palatine bones short, transverse. 



