20 PHOCIBiE. 



terranean is also found on the southern one and on the islands of 

 the Atlantic— P. iT.^. 1864. 



2. Monachus tropicalis. Jamaica Seal. 



Grey-brown; hair very short, strap-shaped, closely adpressed, 

 black with a slight grey tip ; whiskers short, thick, cylindrical, re- 

 gularly tapering, without any appearance of wave or twist ; fingers 

 gradually shorter. 



Phoca tropicalis, Gray, Cat. Seals B. M. 28. 



Inhab. Jamaica. 

 a. Skin, imperfect, wdthout skull. 



Skin referred to in description of Cystqphora AntUlarum, Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1849, 93. 



SubfamUy 2. PHOCINA. 



Cutting-teeth \ ; the first front grinder in each jaw single-rooted, 

 the rest two-rooted ; muzzle hold and calloiis between and above the 

 nostrils, and divided by a central groove; wrist rather exserted; 

 fingers svheqyml ; claws 5-5, large. 



Phocina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1826, 340; Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, i. 583; 



Zool. Brebus Sf Terror, 3 ; Cat. Phocidce B. M. 20. 

 Phocaceema, § 1, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1837 ; Wiegm. Arch, vii.; 



Skand. Fauna, t. , 1840. 

 Phoca, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1837 ; Wiegm. Arch. vii. ; Skand. 



Fauna, xx. 1840. 

 Callocephalus, F. Cuv. Mdm. Mus. xi. 1827. 



0. CALLOCEPHALUS. 



Muzzle rather narrow ; whiskers waved ; fingers gradually shorter ; 

 palate angularly notched behind ; hair subcylindrical ; under-fur 

 thin ; web between the hind toes hairy. The branches of the lower 

 jaw diverging ; the lower edge of the lower jaw rounded, simple, the 

 angle blunt, sloping behind ; grinders large, crowded. (Fig. 7.) 



Inhab. Northern Ocean. 



Callocephalus (Callocephale), pt., F. Cuv. Mhn. Mt/s. xi. 182, 1827; 



Diet. Sci. Nat. lix. 463, 1829 ; Fischer, Syn. 230 ; Gray, Zool. Erebus 



S/- Terror, Mamm. 

 Callocephalus, § *, Cat. Phoc. B. M. 21._ 

 Phoca, sp., Zinn. ; Fleming, Phil. Zool. ii. 187; Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 



xz. 



1. Calloceplialus vitulinus. Common Seal. 

 Finely sprinkled with blackish and whitish, and with greyish brown 

 and yellowish grey along the back, usually unspotted and blackish ; 

 the underside of the body whitish ; a widish, paler, unspotted ring 

 round each eye, and over each eye a small roundish spot, from which 

 a bristle proceeds. Edge of lower jaw rounded below in front, with 

 a short symphysis. Grinders large, rather crowded and oblique. 



