504 BULLETIN 128. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. * 



Order CETACEA.^^ (Whales and Porpoises.) 



Suborder Mysticeti. (Baleen Whales.) 



Family BAL^NIDiE. 



Genus EUBAL^NA Gray. 



1864. Euhalsena Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 201. Type, 

 Balsena australis Desmoulins. 



♦Eubalsena glacialis (Bonaterre). (Right Whale). 



1789. [Balsena] glacialis Bonaterre, Tabl. Encyclop. et Method. 



Regnes Nature, Cytologic, p. 3. 

 1885. Balsena hiscayensis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 591. 1885. 



1900. Euhalsena glacialis Kukenthal, Fauna Arctica, vol. 1, 

 p. 207. 



Type Locality. — North Sea. 



*Eubalsgna sieboldii (Gray). 



1864. Balsena sieboldii Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 



vol. 14, p. 349. November, 1864. 

 1866. Evhalxna sieboldii Gray, Catal. Seals and Whales Brit. 



Mus., p. 96. 



1901. [Balsena] sieboldii Elliot, Field Columb. Mus., publ. 45, 

 zool. ser., vol. 2, p. 8. March, 1901. 



Type Locality. — Coast of Japan and northwest coast of North 

 America. 



Genus BAL.SNA Linnaeus. 



1758. Balsena Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75. Type, 

 Balsena mysticetus Linnaeus. 



Balasna mysticetus Linnaeus. (Bowhead). 



1758. [Balsena] mysticetus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 



p. 75. 

 1885. Balsena mysticetus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 591. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Greenland seas. 



Family RHACHIANECTID^.. 



Genus RHACHIANECTES Cope. 



1869. Rhachianectes Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 p. 15. Type, Aga'phelus glaucus Cope. 



'» For classification of the supergeneric groups see Miller, Smitlis. Misc. Coll., vol. 76, No. 5, August 31, 

 1923. Another important paper on this subject is Winge's "Udsigt over Hvalernes indbyrdes Slapgtskab" 

 Vidensk. Meddel. fra Dansk naturhist. Foren., vol. 70, pp. oD-142, 1918); translation by Miller under title: 

 A review of the interrelationships of the Cetacea (Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 72, No. 8, pp. 1-97 ,July 30, 1921). 



