NOTE ON KOGIA BREVICEPS. 305 
The phalangeal formula differs from the general arrange- 
ment usual in the species, but this may be due to small bones 
having been lost in mounting. The formula of the Ceylon 
specimen is I2, I18, III8, [V6, V4. 
In the skull there are thirteen sharp slightly curved teeth 
at each side of the lower jaw. 
Distribution. 
Cape of Good Hope (type locality), Indo-Pacific, Australasia, 
Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America, and the coast 
of France. Records of the species are rare. At least one 
specimen has been recorded from Ceylon previously, as the 
specimen on view in the British Museum was presented by 
Mr. Hugh Neville in 1891 from Trincomalee. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
Plate 1.—Lateral view of Kogia breviceps. x 3k. 
Plate II.—Lateral view of the complete skeleton. x 7 
wae 
Plate III.—Lateral view of skull. x 2. 
Plate IV.—Dorsal view of the skull (x 4) and lateral view of 
pectoral girdle and skeleton of paddle (x 4). 
[Note.—While this paper was in the press, the writer received Schulte’s 
paper on the Skull of K. breviceps (Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 
XXXVII.,1917,p.361). He gives a list of twenty-one specimens of the 
species that have been described up to the present. Atleast two other 
specimens are known, both from Ceylon, viz., the Trincomalee specimen 
presented to the British Museum by Mr. Hugh Neville in 1891, and the 
Moratuwa specimen, which forms the subject of the present note.— 
J. P.] 
