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it 196 CARNIVORA. 
Suborder CARNIVORA PINNIPEDIA. 
Family OTARITDA. 
Genus OTARIA, Péron* 
(including Arctocephalus, &c.). 
Dentatron :—I. - C. Pm. 2 M. i 
®taria forstert, Lesson’. 
Syn. Arctocephalus forstert, Gray. 
Hab. Australian and New-Zealand seas. 
32173. The palatal portion of the cranium, together with numerous 
limb-bones and vertebre ; from Prehistoric or Pleistocene 
deposits at Ruamora, South Island, New Zealand. The 
cranium agrees precisely with the one figured by J. W. 
Clark in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, pl. lxxii., showing the 
small cusp on the anterior side only of the cheek-teeth. 
These remains were associated with those of Dinornis and 
a species of Dog*. Purchased from Walter Mantell, Esq. 
Otaria, Sp. 
Hab. New Zealand. 
32173 a. Fragment of the anterior portion of the cranium of a young 
male of a large species, containing a canine tooth; from 
Prehistoric or Pleistocene deposits at Ruamora, South 
Island, New Zealand. This specimen seems too imperfect 
for specific identification. 
Purchased from Walter Mantell, Esq. 
1 Voyage aux Terres Australes, vol. ii. p. 37, note (1816). 
2 Dict. Class. d’ Hist. Nat. vol. xii. p. 421 (1828). 
3 The occurrence of the remains of this genus, associated with those of Din- 
ornis and a Dog, in similar deposits is recorded by Haast in ‘Nature,’ vol. xiv. 
pp. 577-578 (1876). The name of the smaller Otary there found is given as 
Otaria cinerea ; it is, however, not improbable that that form really belongs to 
the present species, since many crania from New Zealand have been erroneously 
referred to O. cinerea (vide J. W. Clark, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 196). That 
species is characterized by the presence of fore-and-aft cusps (talons) to the 
cheek-teeth, as is well exhibited in the figure on p. 191 of the memoir last quoted. 
