8 PHOCIDiE. 



Sect. I. Grinders ^ two-rooted; ears nam; toes simple, of the fore feet 

 short, of the hind feet unequal, the outer on each side longest, the middle 

 shortest; the palms and soles hairy. (See fig. 1.) 



The skuU has no postorbital process nor aJisphenoid canal. The 

 mastoid process is swollen, and seems to form part of the auditory 

 bulla. — Turner. 



Fig.l. 



Monachus albiventer. Fore and hind feet. 



Phoca, Gray, Griffith's A. K. v. 175, 1827. 



Phoca, Sect. I., F. Ouvier, Mdm. Mus. xi. ; Nilsson, Wiegm. Arch. 



■yii. 306 ; Skand. Fauna, n. xx. 

 PhocidsB seu Brachiodontia, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 36, 1828. 

 Phoques, las dents ont les racines multiples, J. Owmer, Dents des 



Mamm. 116. t. 38, 1825. 

 Phocina (part.). Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, 88. 

 PhocidsB, § 1, Gray, Cat. Seals B. M. 5-8. 



SubfamUy 1. STENORHYNCHINA. 



Cutting-teeth ^ ; hind feet nea/rly clawless ; muffie hairy to ike edge 

 and between tlie nostrils ; fore feet triangular ; wrist very short. 



Stenorhynchina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340 ; Mag. N. S. i. 583, 1837.; 

 Zool. Erebus 8f Terror ; Cat. Seals B. M. 5, 8, 1850. 



* The first, second, and third front upper and the first front lower grinders 

 single-rooted, the rest two-rooted; lower jaw moderate, rather weak; 

 orbits large. 



1. LOBODOK. 



Skull elongate ; muzzle elongate ; grinders rather compressed, with 

 a large lobe in front, and three lobes behind the larger central one. 



Head elongate ; ear-conch none externally ; muzzle broad ; nostrils 

 ovate, hairy to the edge ; whiskers rigid, tapering, waved. Skull 

 elongate, rather depressed ; nose broad, rather produced ; orbits 



