1. MEGAPTERA. 



119 



pierced with a large central perforation ; in another adult specimen 

 of the same species it is imperforate. 



Fig. 14. 



Megaptera longimana. Esch: Nordhv. t. 3. f. 2. 



1. Megaptera longimana. Johnston's Humpbacked Whale. 



Black : pectoral fin and beneath white, black varied ; lower lip 

 with two series of tubercles ; pectoral nearly one-third of the entire 

 length ; dorsal elongate, the front edge over end of pectoral ; throat 

 and belly grooved. 



Female : upper and lower lip with a series of tubercles ; dorsal an 

 obscure protuberance. — Johnston, Trans. Neiuc. N. H. Soc. t. 1. 



? Baljeua musculus, Ascan. Icon. Rer. Nat. iii. t. 26, cop. Bonnat. Cet. 



E. 31. t. 371; Schreb. Sliufjeth. t. 335. 

 PBalfena Boops (Keporkak), O. Fahr. Faun. Orccnl. 36? (notijwn.) ; 



Turf on, Brit. Fauna, 16 ; Nilsson, Skand. Fauna, 639. 

 Kepoi-kak, Langliaandede Finlival, or Balfena Boops, Eschricht, K. 



Danske Vid. Selskabs Afh. 1815, xi. 239. t. 1, 3, 4. 

 Kypliobalaena (Boops), Eschricht, Nord. Wallthiere, 1849. 

 Kyphobalfeua longimana, Van Beneden. 

 Kypliobala^na Boops, Eschricht, Nord. Wallthiere, 1849. 

 Balsena longimana, Rudolphi, Mem. Acad. Bcrl. 1829, 133. t. 12 (mas), 



cop. Brandt i!j- Batzcburr/, t. 15. f. 2. 

 Balaenoptera longimana, Bapp, Cetac. 35. 

 Whale, Johnston, Trans. Newcastle N. H. Soc. i. 6. t. 1 (female, on 



back). 

 Megaptera longimana, Gray, Zool. E. Sf T. 17 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 



92 ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 207. f. 5, 6, 7 ; Ann. ^^ 



3Iaff. N 11. 1864, xiv. 350. 

 Megapterou longimana, Oraij, Zool. E. ^- T. 51 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 



89. 



Inhab. North Sea ; mouth of the Maese {Rudolphi). Newcastle 

 {Johnston). 



a. Stuffed specimen, young. Greenland, Professor Eschricht'n Col- 

 lection, as Mefjapteron Boops, Eschricht. 



