RHACHIANECTES. MEGAPTERA. 17 



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

 II, 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, VII, VIII. 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. Mesaptera. 



Megaptera Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zool., 1846, p. 16. Type 



Balcena longimana Rudolphi = Bahzna nodosa Bonnaterre. 

 Megapteron Wagn., Archiv f. Naturg., 1847, Bd. 11, p. 38. 

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



& Math. Afd. Kjobenh., 5te Raekke, i, 1849, p. 108. Id. 



Unter. Nord. Wallth., 1849, P- 56. 

 Megapteropsis Van Ben., Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. de Belgique, 2e 



S^r, XXXIV, 1872, p. 15. 

 Poescopia 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). 



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



R^gnes de la Nature, Cdtol., 1789, p. 5. 

 Bakena longimana Rudolphi, Abh. Ak. Berl., 1829, pis. 1-5. 

 BalcBna hoops (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., 11, 

 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 osphyia Cope. 



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

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

 Pub., II, 1901, p. 10. 

 Cope's Baleen Whale. 



Type locality. Coast of Maine forty miles from Petit Menan 

 lighthouse. 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic Ocean. 



