CETACEA. 113 
** Beak of skull rather thick, conical, evenly tapering. 
8. DeLeuiNus Metis. The METIs. 
_ Skull globular; back of blower tubercular; nose thick, rather 
conical, regularly tapering, upper part convex, rather longer than 
the head and rather more than twice as long as the width at the 
notch; intermaxillaries convex, rather more than half the width 
at the beak; teeth 23, rather conical, acute, curved. 
D. Metis, Gray, Cat. Ost. B. M. 36; Zool. Ereb. & Terror, 38. 
~ t. 18, skull. 
TInhab. ? 
a. Skull. 
_ The specimen figured in the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror. 
in.’ 4 lim. 
Skull: Length, entire........ 21. 0 
ie a RIE ts 6 Thay 
» Of lower jaw.. 17 O 
Breadth of orbit...... Pea 
i ret eae ae 5.20 
» middle of beak 3 O 
_- This skull is like D. Euphrosyne, but differs in the nose bemg 
rather shorter compared with the length of the head, more taper- 
ing, and the teeth rather larger. It differs from D. Tursio in the 
‘nose being much shorter and more conical and acute. 
9. DeELPHINUS CyMopocE. The CyMoDOCE. 
_ Skull roundish; nose broad, rounded above, broad at the 
base, gradually tapermg m front and rather convex on the sides, 
yz longer than the head, or rather more than half the entire 
length and rather more than twice as long as the width at the 
notch; the triangular impression im front of the blower rather 
elongate, extended rather beyond the lne of the hinder teeth; 
teeth 22, moderate, conical, slightly incurved, acute (rather more 
than three in one inch); lower jaw regularly converging, straight 
on the sides, the front obliquely truncated, and the gonyx slightly 
produced. 
Delphinus Cymodoce, Gray, Cat. Ost. B. M. 35; Zool. Ereb. & 
» Terror, 38. t. 19. 
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a. Skull ——? 
. .* specimen figured in the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror, 
19. 
