BOTANICAL NOTES. 225 



under notice has £§ on each side, and there are besides a set of f 

 which were scarcely visible through the gums, and situated out of the line 

 of the other teeth ia front of the jaws. In shape these \ teeth are 

 quite unlike the rest, being conical instead of flattened or compressed. The 

 measurements of the animal taken in the flesh are as under : — 



Inches. 

 Length along curve from tip of snout to notch between 



caudal flukes 52 



Ditto straight 45 



Tip of snout to pectoral fin 10 



Caudal flukes 9x3 



Distance of blow hole from tip of snout along curve 6*5 



Ditto from angle of mouth to eye 1'62 



Vent from root of caudal fin 14 



Snout rounded ; head very convex, rising posteriorly high to the dorsal 

 surface; blowhole semilunar; back with a longitudinal band of spinous 

 tubercles on the vertebral area, beginning nearly opposite the root of the 

 pectoral, widening to 15 inch about the middle, and again contracting and 

 ending narrowly opposite or in line with the vent ; no dorsal fin ; pectoral 

 subfalcate ; teeth \% ; colour shining black throughout, except a purplish 

 red path in front of the snout (on the upper lip) and on the threat ; intestine 

 31 feet in length ; contents of stomach Crustacea (species of Penaeus). 



Inches. 

 Length of skull over curves to upper edge of foramen 



magnum 10 



Ditto straight from below 8 



Height of skiall (vertex of super-occipital) 425 



Tip of snout to llow-hole 4 25 



Ditto to interparietal 625 



Interparietal toupperedge of foramen magnum 3 - 75 



Across m axilla r its 4'75 



Across blow- hole 15 



Length of molar 2 



Ditto ofbiain cavity 4*0 



Greatest space between occipital condyles (upper) 1"5 



Across paroccipitals 3*37 



Smallest fpace between occipital condyles at lower third 10 



Vertical diameter of foiamen magnum 1'75 



Breadth across last teeth on each tide (upper jaw) 2 5 



Ditto ditto (lower jaw) 2 - 5 



Teeth-line in upper and lower jaw 25 



Length of lower jaw to coronoid process 5"62 



Greatest vertical depth of ramus 2 - 62 



Palate 4.0 



The super-occiprtal is sub globular aLd very convex above ; rcstrum short, 



rounded in front j foramen magnum vertically ova 1 , with the occipital 



