MAMMALIA, 17 
caudus (QoAxdi) = hoccameh (Bonap.). Allen, Mamm. Massach. pp. 167- 
175. 
L'llra canadensis in Costa Rica. Frantzins, Wiegm. Arch, 1869, p. 289. 
Liitra destructor (Barnston) not distinct from L. canadensis. Allen, 1. c. 
p. 178. 
Pteronura sandbachii occurs most probably also in Southern Brazil ; but 
Lutra solilaria (Natterer) is a dilfereut animal. Reinhardt, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1869, p. 57. 
Mephitis mephitica. On the supposed species which have been separated 
from this variable form, see Allen, 1. c. p. 178. 
Mephitis chilonsis in Costa Rica. Frantzius, Wiegm. Arch. 1869, p. 289. • 
Galictis harhara in Costa Rica. Frantzius, 1. c. p. 287. 
UrsHs. J. A. Allen agrees with Blainville & Middendorff that all the 
land-bears of the northern parts of the Old and New Worlds belong to one 
species only, U. arctos. Mamm. Massach. pp. 184-192. 
Procyon hernandezii is distinct from P. lotor, and occurs in Costa Rica. 
Frantzius, 1. c. p. 291. 
Meles. A. Milne-Edwards figures, in Recherch. Hist. Nat. Mammif., M. 
leucolfcmus, pi. 24, 31. leptorhynchiis^ pi. 25, and their skulls, pis. 26 & 27. 
Nasua leucorhynchus from Peru occurs also in Costa Rica, and is a distinct 
species. Frantzius, /. c. p? 292. 
Ailurus fulyens. Notes on its habitat (fee. by Dr. Simpson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1869, p. 507 ; it is figured on pi. 41. — A very indifferent figure (woodcut) 
in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 408 
Pinnipedia. 
~^Dr. Gray revises the arrangement of Phocidee (Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 18G9, iv. p. 342), and draws attention to the changes 
in the form of the front part of the lower edge of the mandible, 
Avhich are dependent on age. He arranges the Seals thus : — 
Sect. A. Cutting-teeth | , lower conical ; hind toes clmved. 
I. Phocina : Phoca, Pagophilus, Halicyon, Callocephalus, Pagomys. 
II. Halichoerina : Ilalichoerus. 
Sect. B. Cutting-teeth |. Muffle hairy to the edge and hetween the nostrils. 
III. Monachina\ Monachus. 
IV. Lohodontina : Lobodon. 
V. Stenorhynchina : Stenorhynchus, Ommatophoca, Leptonyx. 
VI. Cystophorina: Morunga, Cystophora. 
"^Dr. Gray (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1869, iv. p. 269) arranges 
the Otariida thus : — 
A. Sea-Lions. 
I. Otariina : Otaria. 
B. Sea-Bears. 
II. Callorhinina : Callorhinus. 
III. Arctocephalina : Phocarctos, Arctocephalus, Euotaria, Gypsophoca. 
IV. Zalophina : Zalophus, N eophoca. 
V. Eumetopiina : Eumetopias, Arctophoca. 
1869. [voL. VI.] 
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