3. EPIODON. ,341 



Diodon (part), Lesson. 

 Aliama (part), Gnn/, P. Z. S. 18G4, 242. 



Epiodrtu, Hajincsqiic, Precis Soiiiiol. 13 (1814) ; Anal. Nat. (no char.) ; 

 Bonaparte; Gray, P. Z. S. 18G5. 



Cuvier remarks, describing- the head of Z. cavirostris (Oss. Foss. 

 V. 350. t. 27. f. 3), that "cette tete a, comme on voit, de grands 

 rapports avec le Cachalot, et encore de phis grands avec THyperoodon. 

 Elle nc difFere de ce dernier que parce que les maxillaires ne se dres- 

 sent point siir les cotes dii miiscau en cloisons verticales, et que 

 I'espece de mur derriere les narines ne se borne pas a s'elever ver- 

 ticalement, mais qu'il se recourbc pour former un demi-dome au- 

 dessus de ces cavites." — Oss. Foss. v. 352. t. 27. f. 3. 



Epiodon Desmarestii. 



Grey, white-streaked. Length 13 feet. 



Epiodon Urf2;anautus, Rajinesque, Precis Somiol. 13, 1814 (no character). 

 Delpliiuus Epiodon, Desm. Mamm. 521 ; Fischer, Siju. 516. 

 Ileterodon Epiodon, Lesson, Man. 420. 

 Zipliius cavirostris, Ciiv. Oss. Loss. v. 350. t. 27. f. 3 ; Duvernoy, Ann. 



Sci. Nat. 1850, xv. ; Arch. Natiirg. 1852, 62 ; Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. 



xiv. ; Zool. et Puleont. Fran<^. t. 38. f. 1 (Heraut), f. 2 (Martigue) , 



t. 39. f. 1-5 (head). 

 Ziphius (Dioplodou ?) ca\'irostris, Gervais, Compt. Pendus, xxxi. 510, 



xxxii. 358 ; Ann. <S'c«. Nut. xiv. 5 ; Arch. Naturg. 1852, 34. 

 Delphinus Desmarestii, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. 24. t. 2. f . 3 ; F. Cnv. 



Cetac. 159. 

 H>qieroodon de Corse, Doumet, Ball. Soc. Cuvier. 1842, 207. 1. 1. f. 2. 

 Delphiuus Philippii, Cocco, Erichson, Arch. Nat. 1846, 204. t. 6. f. 6. 

 Hyperoodon Doumetii, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 68. 

 Hyperoodon Gervaisii, Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1851, xv. 67. 

 Epiodon Desmarestii, Bonap. Faun. Ltal. ?; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865. 

 (Diodon) Le Diodon de Desmarest, Lesson, Biiffon, i. 124. t. 2. f. 2. 

 Orca (Desmarestii), Wayler, N. S. Amph. 34. 

 Hjq)eroodon Desmarestii, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 69. 

 Aliama Desmarestii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 242. 

 Hyperoodon, Gervais, Comptes Rendus, 1850 (7th Oct.), xxxi. 510, 



xxxii. 358. 



Inhab. Mediterranean. Coast of Frontignan, departcment de 

 I'Herault, May 1850 {Gervais). Messina (Cocco). Nice (Risso). 

 Sicily (Mcijinescpie). 



" Steel-grey, with numerous, irregnlar, white streaks ; beneath 

 white. Body thicker in the middle ; tail slender, long, keeled ; 

 rounded on the belly ; head not swollen, ending in a long nose ; 

 upper jaw short, toothless, lower much longer, bent up, and -with 

 two large conical teeth at the end ; teeth nicked near the tip ; the 

 eyes small, oval ; blowers large, semilunar ; pectoral fins short ; dorsal 

 rather beyond the middle of the back, nearly above the vent ; the 

 caudal fin broad, festooned. Length nearly 1(3 feet. It differs from 

 D. Diodon of Hunter in the forehead not being swollen, and in the 

 lower jaw being produced and bent up, the pectoral being pointed, 

 the dorsal more obtuse, and the body being white-streaked." Tnliab, 



