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aware, though Wagner, on tlie authority of Trosehel* gives the num- 

 ber of teeth as 40 above and 'M below. The name will, therefore, re- 

 main as a nonien nudHni, except for those who regard a name attached 

 to a plate as having a status in systematic uomenclaturc. The i>late 

 must have appeared before 1S41, and had it been accompanied by a 

 description, the name would have priority over Gray's attenuatus.f 



The skull upon AvhichGray based his i^feno capoisi.s has been consid- 

 ered by Sir William Flower and myself as specittcally identical with his 

 attenuatiis, and as the description was not published until ISOo, the 

 former name, of course, becomes a synonym of the latter. 



(rray's Clymene puncUita^X the type-skull of which I examined in the 

 Liverpool public museum, appears to me to be also a synonym of 

 P. attenuatus. I did not have an oi)])ortunity to count the vertebrae, 

 however, or to note the relative positions of the foramina, and it is pos- 

 sible that differences will be found here which are not correlated in the 

 skull. It is also to be noted that in the figure of the exterior published 

 by Gray, § a band of light color passes obliquely across tlie back near 

 the base of the caudal tins, ^o such color-marking is mentioned in Dr. 

 Abbott's notes or elsewhere, and it may constitute a distinction of impor- 

 tant, though I am disposed to regard it as an individual variation. || 



* Schreber's Siiugethiere, T^"" Th., 1846, p. 332. 



t Waguer states (Sclir«^l)or's S.ingethiere, T'"" Th., 1846, preface) that Weigmann 

 (lied befoi-o cninpletiiig his work on the cetacoa for tho SaiKjetliierc. The phito must 

 liavo been issued, as early as 1841, however, as Sehlegel reefers to it iu his Ahhand- 

 hnif/en aiis deiii Gchkle drr Zoologie, of that date, and assigns to tlie species a skull 

 in the Leydeu collection. 



t Described iu 1865. 



^ Catalogue of Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 308, fig. 101. 



II Note, — In my Revision of the Delphinidic, p. 61, 1 make the statement that the 

 geuus Prodelplihnts is distinguished from Tnrsiops by its Jcrr numerous teeth. The 

 opposite, of course, is inteuded. 



