116 BULLETIN 3(3, UNITED STATED I ATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Skull — Coutiiiued. Inches. 



Smallest space between occipital condyles at loAver third 1. 



Vertical diameter of foramen magnum L75 



Breadth across last teeth on each side of npper jaw '2.5 



Breadth across last tooth on each side of lower jaw 2. 5 



Teeth line in upper and lower jaws 2. 5 



Length of lower jaw at coronoid process 5.62 



Greatest vertical depth of ramus 2. (j"2 



Palate 4. 



Owen's BelvMnapterus molagan, from the vieiuity of tbe Cape of Good 

 Hope, belongs apparently to tbis species. 



N.phocwnoides appears to have a wide range, extendiug at least from 

 tbe Cape of Good Hope to Japan. 



Table of measuremcnis. 

 NEOMEEIS PHOCiENOIDES. 



* From -Murray. 



t Least. 



tOr 



S 18—18 

 i 17-17 



