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narrow symphysis, with about twenty six teeth, thirteen on 

 each side. 



The following measurements will show the relation between 

 the genus Kogia and this nsw genus EupJiysetes, 



As our animal, therefore, comes obviously near to the 

 Kogia hreviceps of Gray, who founded the genus on the 

 description by De Blainville of a skull of his Physeter 

 hreviceps, it may be incumbent on me to state why a new 

 name has been adopted, namely, Euphysetes Grayii, 



In the first place, the jaw bone of our animal is not as broad 

 as long. The nasal pit is totally unlike that of the cachalot. 

 The nose (if by nose be meant snout) is not pointed, but very 

 truncated or blunt in the skeleton as well as in the perfect 

 animal ; moreover, instead of the nose being one inch longer 

 than breadth of occipital bone, this is to the length of snout in 

 the proportion of about fourteen to eight. The teeth instead 

 of being fourteen or fifteen are in number twenty-six. 

 Again the beak, instead of being as long as it is wide 

 at the notches, has its length in proportion to this width only 

 in the proportion of seven to nine : and so on. The 

 few characters given by De Blainville and Gray show suffi- 

 cient divergency from the form of our animal, and they incline 

 me to leave the name Kogia hreviceps for the whale that may 



