GLOBICEPHALUS MELAS. 



'Table of measurements — Coutinued. 



133 



* Least, t Rudimentary alveoli closed. J Rudimentary alveoli open. § Occipital sutures distinct. 



15. GLOBICEPHALUS Lessou. 



{GloUcepliala Lesson, Mamm. d^couverts depnis 1788, 1828, p. 441.) 



GLOBICEPHALUS MELAS (Traill). 



Deplnnus melas, Traill, Nicholson's Journal, XXii, 1809, ]}. 81, pi. 3. 



Delpliinus gJohiccps, Cuvier, Ann. Mus. d'Hist;. nat., xix, 1812, p. 14, PI. i, 2 figs. 



(SloJ)iocephahi8 Svineval, Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror, 184G, p. 32. 



Delphinus intermedins, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila., vi, 1829, p. 51, PI. 



I, fig. 3. 

 ? Glohioceplialus affinis, Gray, Zool. Erebus & Terror, 1846, p. 32. 

 GlohiocephaJus EdwardsU, A. Siuitb, African Zoology. 



Glohioceplialus incrassatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, p. 309, 1 fig. 

 SphwroeepliaJus incrassatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 241 ; Catalogue, 



1866, p. 324. 



Traill's concise description and generally accurate figure leave no 

 doubt whatever as to the identity of his Delpliinus melas. Gray was 

 surely at fault in employing Lacepede's name, Catodon Svineval., since 

 the only part of the latter's description which is diagnostic in no way 

 applies to the blackfish. 



The generally accepted opinion that the blackfish of the northeastern 

 coast of North America, the Delpliinus intermedins of Harlan, is identical 

 with the Glohiceplialns melas of European waters, seems to rest upon an 

 excellent basis. Harlan's species was described from a specimen from 



