198 



Transactions. — Zoology. 

 Appendix B. 



Moeraki. 



Otago, 



New 

 Brighton. 



Okain's 

 Bay. 



Victoriau. 



Total leiio;tli (jaws retracted) 

 Length of head (jaws retracted) 

 Lengtli of head (jaws pro- 

 truded) 

 Height of liead through centre 



of eye 

 Height of body at post. ext. 



oper. 

 Height of body 2ft. from head 

 Height of body 4ft. from head 



(greatest) 

 Height of body 5ft. Gin. from 



head (level of auus) 

 Distance of anus from post. 



ext. oper. 

 Distance of anus from snout. . 

 Height of body 4ft. from tail 

 Height of body 2ft. from tail 



3ft. 



o\ 



m. 



body 



body 5ft. llin. 



body Oft. from 



Thickness of 



from liead 

 Thickness of 



from head 

 Thickness of 



head 

 Diameter of iris 

 Diameter of pupil . . 

 Length 1st dorsal . . 

 Length 7th dorsal . . 

 Lengtli 9th dorsal . . 

 Height of 2nd dorsal fin 

 Length of pectoral fin 

 Base of pectoral fm 

 Length of ventral fin 



Ft. iu. 

 12 6 



9 



11 



9 



11 



1 2-5 

 1 3-25 



1 2-5 



6-0 

 11-25 

 9 

 3'5 



3-0 



2-0 





 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 

 

 

 8 



1-35 



0-5 



5-5 



5-5 



3-5 



2-25-3 



3-0 



1-25 



1-0 



Ft. in. 

 11 

 9-5 



1 

 1 1-25 



4 9-5 



Ft. 

 12 

 7 



lU. 



5 



VO 



1 1-75 



4 11 



Ft. 



13 







in. 

 7 

 7-50 



7-25 



Approximate. 



f Broken. 



Akt. XI. — Oa some Points in the Anatomy of a Species of 

 Sea-hear caught ojf Simmer, Canterbury, New Zea- 

 land ; icith Notes on the New Zealn.nd Eared Seals. 

 (Abstract.) 



By H. 0. FoKBES. 



Communicated by J. T. Meeson, B.A. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterburij, 1st October, 1S91.] 



In this paper (which will be published in, extenso in a future 

 volume, when the necessary drawings — which, for want of a 



