262 BELPHINID^. 



U. Beak short; of skull very broad, shelving on the sides. 31axilla shelving 

 over the orbits. Teeth |A or |4. Eutropia. 



Eutropia, Grag, P. Z. S. 1862, 145. 



9. Tursio Eutropia. The Eutropia. 

 Nose of skull rather longer than the length of the brain-cavity, 

 slightly dilated on the sides before the notch, very convex and roimded 

 above. Triangle elongate, produced in front of the teeth-line, concave 

 on the sides and strongly keeled in the centre behind ; hinder edge 

 of blowhole prominent. Intermaxillaries wide, convex above, leaving 

 a broad open space in front. Lower jaw thick, blunt, and produced 

 beyond the upper in front. Skvill compressed behind. Palate con- 

 cave in fi'ont, convex in the centre behind, and keeled on each 

 side. Teeth |-A, slender, cylindrical, conical at the top. The frontal 

 ridge half the distance between the notch on the convexity of the 

 condyles. Condyles large, oblique. Poramen magnum wider than 

 high. 



Delphinus Eutropia, Grag, P. Z. S. 1849, 1 ; Ann. ^ 3Iag. K H. v. 

 1850, 48 ; Zoot Erebus &■ Terror, t. 34, ined. (skull) ; Cat. Cetac. 

 B. M. 1850, 111. 



a. SkuU. Pacific Ocean. Chili. From Dr. Dickie's Collection. 



in. lin. 



SkuH : Length, entire 15 



Length from notch 6 10 



Length of beak 7 10 



Length of teeth-line 6 10 



Length of lower jaw 11 11 



Width at notch 3 6 



Width at orbit 6 5 



Width at middle of beak 2 10 



Width, middle intermaxillaries 1 3 



Width of condyle above 3 3 



Height of each condyle 1 3 



10. Tnrsio Catalania. 



Delphinus Catalania, Grag, P. Z. S. 1862, 144. 



Inhab. North-west coast of Australia, Cape MelviUe. 



a, h. Skulls. Collected by Mr. John Macgillivi'ay. 



These skulls were accompanied by the following notes : — 

 " Tlie larger of tlie two skuJls belonged to an individual kUlcd oft' 

 Cape Melville (within the Great Barrier Reefs), north-east coast of 

 Australia, Sept. 5, 1860. It was a female, 7^ feet in leng-th ; and 

 from it were taken two foetuses, each 10 inches in length. The adult 

 was of a very Ught lead-colour above and on the sides, gradually 

 passing into the dirty leaden white of the lower parts, wliich were 

 covered (as also the flippers) with longitudinally elongated blotches 

 of dark lead-colour. 



