3. DELPHIKUS. 249 



resemblance to that of Delphinus DelpMs. The intermaxillaries, 

 united as far as the middle of the rostrum, are vaulted, so that the 

 section of their united middle portion forms a complete semicircle, 

 arising abruptly from the maxillaries, and being there only as broad 

 as the exposed portion of each maxillary : probably a distinctive 

 specific character. Teeth g^^- 



11. Delphinus pemiger. 



Delphinus pemiger, Elliot, Joiirn. Asiatic Soc. xvii. 250, xxviii. 491 ; 

 Blyth, Rep.Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, 11; Cat. 3Ius. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 91. 



Teeth large. 



Inhab. Bay of Bengal. 



A stuffed specimen of this small Cetal is in the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society, Calcutta. Presented by the Hon. "Walter EUiot of 

 the Madras Civil Sei^ice, 1848. 



" This species is distinct from any of those described by Dr. Gray, 

 and having the teeth proportionally large." — Blyth. 



c. Skull flattened behind. Triangle to the teeth- line. Palate fl^t, not grooved 

 on the side. Clyuiene. 



12. Delphinus Clymene. 



Skull rather depressed, the hinder part slightly convex ; nose 

 rather depressed, shelving on the sides ; intermaxillaries convex, 

 with an elongated groove between them in front, three-fifths the 

 entire length, twice and a half the length of the width at the notch ; 

 the triangular impression in front of the blower rather elongate, 

 produced a little beyond the line of the hinder tooth, rugose in 

 front, with oblique grooves on each side. Teeth ^, small, slightly 

 incurved, acute, six in an inch. 



Clymene, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 237. 



Delphinus Clvmene, Gray, Cat. Osteol. Spec. B. M. 35 ; Cat. Cetac. 



B. 31. 1850, 115. 

 Delphinus Metis (No. 2), Gray, Zool. Erebus t^ Terror, 39 (not No. 1, 



nor figure). 



Inhab. ? 



in. lin. 



Skull : Length, entire 15 7 



Length of head 6 3 



Length of nose 9 4 



Length of teeth-line 7 4 



Width of temple 6 10 



"Width at nostril 3 7 



Width at middle of beak 2 2 



Width of intermaxillaries .... 1 



This species is like the D. Doris in size, but the skuU behind the 

 frontal ridge is much flatter and gradually shelving to the foramen 

 nuicjniun, and the beak is more depressed. 



