RHACHIANECTES. MEGAPTERA. 17 



Kkackianectes glaucus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 n, 1901, p. 9, and Suppl., p. 478. Zool. Ser. Id. Mamm. 

 Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, 

 p. 40, pis. vi, vn, vin. Zool. Ser. 

 GRAY'S BALEEN WHALE. 



Type locality. Coast of California. 



Geogr. Distr. Coast of Lower California, Mexico, to the North 

 Pacific and Arctic Oceans; Okhotsk and Bering Seas. 



Genus 17. Megaptera. 



Megaptera Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zool., 1846, p. 16. Typ'e 



Balcsna longimana Rudolphi = Balcena nodosa Bonnaterre. 

 Megapteron Wagn., Archiv f. Naturg., 1847, Bd. n, p. 38. 

 Kyphobalcena Eschr., K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, Naturv. 



& Math. Afd. Kjobenh., 5te Raekke, i, 1849, P- IQ 8. Id. 



Unter. Nord. Wallth., 1849, p. 56. 

 Megapteropsis Van Ben., Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. de Belgique, 26 



Ser, xxxiv, 1872, p. 15. 

 Pcescopia Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1864, p. 207, fig. 3. Id. Cat. 



Seals and Whales Brit. Mus., 1866, pp. 113, 125, fig. 19. 



33. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnat). 



Balazna nodosa Bonn., Tabl. Encyclop. and Meth. des trois 



Regnes de la Nature, Cetol., 1789, p. 5. 

 Bal&na longimana Rudolphi, Abh. Ak. Berl., 1829, pis. 1-5. 

 Balcsna boops (nee Linn.) (keporkak) Eschr., K. Dansk. Vid. 



Selskabs. Ath., XL, 1845, p. 239, t. i, 3, 4. 



Megaptera americana Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zool. 1846, p. 17. 

 Megaptera nodosa Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., n, 



1901, p. 10. Zool. Ser. 

 ARCTIC BALEEN WHALE. 



Type locality. Coast of New England States. 

 Geogr. Distr. Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. 



a. Megaptera nodosa osplujia Cope. 



Megaptera nodosa, osphyia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 

 1865, pp. 178-180. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 

 Pub., n, 1901, p. 10. 

 COPE'S BALEEN WHALE. 



Type locality. Coast of Maine forty miles from Petit Menan 

 lighthouse. 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic Ocean. 



