orcad^;. 85 



" The atlas, axis, and three other cervicals are anchylosed. The 

 compound cervicals have a conjoined length of 4 inches. Vertical 

 diameter of foramen magnum 2| inches. Conjoined length of the 

 four lumbars 8 inches ; height, including spinous processes, 8 - 5 

 inches. Caudal apparatus, of thirteen segments, 16 inches ; two of 

 these are anchylosed. Teeth g^J." — Hector. 



6. Globiocephalus Scammonii, Cope, Proc. Ac. N. S. Philad. 1869, p. 11. 



Black above and below. 

 Inhab. North Pacific. 



7. Globiocephalus australis. 



Inhab. Coast of Australia. In Museum of Sydney. 



8. Globiocephalus iudicus, Gray, Cat. S. ty W. p. 322. 

 Inhab. Bay of Bengal. Black fish. 



9. Globiocephalus Sieboldii, Gray, I. c. p. 323. 

 Inhab. Japan. 



10. Globiocephalus chineusis, Gray, I. c. p. 323. 

 Inhab. China. 



11. Globiocephalus sibo, Gray, I. c. p. 323 (sub G. Sieboldii). 



Inhab. Japan. Called " Sibo golo." Purple, with a white spot 

 behind the dorsal fin. 



2. SPKEROCEPHALUS. 



Sphserocephalus, Gray, I. c. p. 323 ; Synops. Whales 8f Bolph. p. 9. 

 Palate of the skull convex, shelving on the sides. Beak oblong, 

 of nearly the same width the greater part of its length. 



1. Sphserocepkalus incrassatus. B.M. 



Sphperocephalus incrassatus, Gray, I. c. p. 324, figs. 63 & 64 ; Synops. 

 Whales % Bolph. p. 9. 



Inhab. British Channel, Bridport. 



II. Pectoral Jin broad, rounded or truncated at the end ; hand shorter than 

 the arm-bones ; second finger the longest, the rest gradually shorter ; 

 phalanges of the second finger six or eight (cf. p. 63). 



Family 13. 0RCAM1. 



Orca, Gray, Cat. Seals fy Whales, p. 278 ; Synops. Whales 8r Bolph. 

 p. 8. 



Head rounded, scarcely beaked. Dorsal fin falcate. Skull heavy ; 

 wings of sides expanded ; beak short, broad ; triangle in front of 



