y. GRAMPUS. 29it 



presents characters -which are easily recognized. Tlie Museum of 

 Paris possesses two skulls, from specimens taken at Nice by Kisso 

 and Laurillard. There is another in the Museum of Marseilles, ob- 

 tained from one of a shoal which came ashore into Carry, Bouches 

 du Rhone, in lS(}2.—Gervais, ComjJtes Jiendus, 28 Nov. 1864, 87G ; 

 Ann. cj- JUag. N. 11. 1865, xv. 76. 



•* The triangle short, broad. 

 3. Grampus Richardsonii. 

 _ Lower jaw straight, regularly diverging, scarcely bulging on the 

 side behind, united by a rather long, wide symphysis in front; 

 obliquely truncated in tront, with a rather prominent, tuberous 

 gonj-x. Teeth 4 . 4, rather large, far apart, conical, tapering at the 

 tip, but subcyUndrical at the base. 



Grampus, n. s., Grai/, Zool. En-bus S)- Terror, 31. 

 Grampus Richardsonii, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 1850, 85 ; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1865. 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. Kalk's Bay, Simon's Bay (Lai/ard). 

 a. Lower jaw. Presented by the Haslar Hospital Museum. 



This lower jaw appears to differ from the lower jaw of G. Cuvieri 

 in being much thicker at the symphysis, very obliquely truncated 

 in front, and rather projecting below. Teeth 4 . 4, large, conical, 

 ntther acute and recurved ; the upper edge behind the teeth round, 

 with many minute holes on the edge. It measures as foUows : — 



inches. 



Length, entire 16 



Length, front truncation 2 



Length of teeth-series 2 



Width near condyle 4 



Width in front . ■. 1 



Width at condyle 11^ 



Mr. Layard has sent me for examination a skull of a Grampvs 

 taken from the shores of Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, which is 

 contained in the South African Museum. It is a typical Grampus, 

 like G. Rissoanus, with four teeth on each side of the front of the 

 lower jaw. It chiefly differs from G. Rissoanus in the shortness of 

 the triangle in front of the blowers, which is not continued over the 

 vomer. The lower jaw agrees so completely with the lower jaw of 

 G. Rkliardsonii, that I believe it belongs to this species, which was 

 probably received from the Capo. — See Gray, F. Z. S. 1865. 



The skull in the Cape Museum resembles in most particulars that 

 of Grampus Cuvieri, and may be considered that of a typical spe- 

 cies of the genus. It agrees with Bclwja in the convexity of the 

 triangle in front of the blowers and in the general form ; but it 

 differs from that genus in the elevation of the margins of the maxiUic 

 over the orbits, and on the side of the hinder part of the beak in 

 front of the notch, showing that the genus is intermediate in form 



