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lip and one on the throat. This porpoise is about 

 four feet long, and inhabits the seas of India, Cape of 

 Good Hope, and Japan. 



Mr. True thinks that a species, noted merely 

 from a native drawing and described as Delpkinap- 

 terus mo lagan by Sir Richard Owen, is the same. 

 " Molaran ' is of course a native name for the 



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porpoise. Neomeris knrrachiensis, Murray,* is but a 

 synonym. 



Mr. Murray, the describer of this last, remarks that 

 it has eighteen teeth on each side of each jaw, besides 

 two or three "which were scarcely visible through 

 the gums, and situated out of the line of the other 

 teeth in front of the jaws. In shape these teeth are 

 quite unlike the rest, being conical instead of flattened 

 or compressed." May these possibly be compared 

 to the rudimentary teeth of Ziphioids ? In the 

 stomach of this whale prawns of the genus Pencils 

 were found. 



The orenus DELPHINUS has the teeth small and 



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numerous, 47-65 in number. Vertebrae : C. 7 ; D. 14 

 (15); L. 21 (22); Ca. 30 (32) = 73 or 76. Atlas and 

 axis fused, the rest free. Palatal border of max- 

 illaries deeply groved. Phalanges: I, 2 or 3. II, S 

 or 9. Ill, 5-7. IV, 2-4. V, i or 2. f Fins falcate. 

 Beak distinct and long. 



This genus, which embraces not more than three 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xiii., 1884, p. 351. 

 t In the embryo of D. delphis digit II may have as many as 12, 

 digit III as many as 9, phalanges. 



