1. OLOBIOCEPnALIJS. 317 



Van Benodcn (N. Mem. Acad. Brux. xxxii. 5) states that a female 

 was got at Huyst, in Belgium, Nov. 1859, 20 feet long, with foetus 

 5 feet long. He states, the foetus was coloured exactly like the 

 adult. 



Eschricht observes that a foetus only a foot long has the pectoral 

 fins of the shape so characteristic of the genus. The teeth were 

 present, but had not cut the gums ; they were j^, and they are 

 evidently permanent, and not replaced. 



" Number of alveoli 10 . 10. The upper jaw is less obtusely 

 rounded than in the preceding specimen (no. 2519), The teeth are 

 relatively smaller and more pointed. The outer margin of the sub- 

 orbital arch is flatter, and joins the upper surface at a right angle, 

 being separated from it by a ridge ; in the preceding specimen the 

 outer margin of the orbit is convex, and passes by a gradual curve 

 into the upper surface, — the whole upper surface of the beak being 

 formed by the premaxillaries ; in the present specimen the maxil- 

 laries slope down more gradually, and therefore appear in the upper 

 view of the skull." — Cat. Osteol. Series, p. 456. 



Var. 1 ? Delphinus globiceps, Misso, Enron. Merid. iii. t. 1, f. 1 ; 

 F. Cm. 223. 



Black, with a grey band on each side from the throat to the vent j 

 head large, round, swollen ; jaws equal ; teeth |^, round, conical, 

 cxirved. 



Inhab. Nice (Risso). 



Is probably the same as D. Svineval, but M. F. Cuvier regards it 

 as distinct. 



The genus Globiceps has been recognized by M. Gervais in some 

 Delphinidce of 14 to 17 feet long, of which a shoal of about fifteen 

 ran on shore near Barcares, Pyrenees orientales, in February 18G4. 

 Four of these reached M. Gervais, and he compared the skeleton of 

 one of them with dififerent skeletons of G. melas in the Museum of 

 Paris. The only differences that can be pointed out reside in the 

 curvature of the incisive bones and in the somewhat more obtuse ap- 

 pearance of the teeth ; but equivalent differences also occur between 

 the specimens of Globiceps from other seas, when carefully compared, 

 so as to a certain extent to justify the supposed species which have 

 been admitted in this genus by authors. The Mediterranean Globi- 

 ceps thus appears to constitute a new race, if not a new species. 

 Like the Cetacea of this genus which live in the ocean, it has a head 

 much inflated and the muzzle short ; and its colour is black, except 

 beneath, where it presents a large median band, commencing in the 

 form of a heart near the throat, and extending to the anus. — Gervais, 

 Comptes Bendus, Nov. 28, 1864 ; Ann. 6f Mag. N. H. 1865, xv, 76. 



2. Globiocephalus affinis. Smaller Pilot Whale. 



Teeth \^, small, conical, curved, very acute ; nose exactly half as 

 long as the head, rather tapering, and rather concave on the sides ; 



