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DELPHINTD^. 



14. PEODELPHINUS. 



Prodelphinus, Gervnis, Osteogr. des Cet. p. 604 (1880). 

 Clyraene, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 237. 



Clymenia, Gray, Stjn. JVTialcs and Dolphins, p. 6, 1868 (both pre- 

 occupied, see P. Z. S. 1884, p. 418), 



1. Prodelphinus ohscurus. 

 Delpliinus (Grampus) obscunis, Gray, Spic. Zool. p. 2 (1828). 



a. Stuffed specimen ; and skull removed from the same in 1884. 



(41. 1733.) 

 Cape of Good Hope {Capt. Heavlside). Transferred from the 

 Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons (1841). 



Type of species. Described and figured, loc. cit. pi. ii. fig. 3. 



b. SkiiU. (354 «— 46. 2. 5. 2.) 



Purchased, 1846. 



c. Skull. (354 6—46. 3. 11. 8.) 



Cape of Good Hope. Purchased, 1846. 



d. Skull, occipital region mutilated. (354 c.) 



From the Zoological Society's Collection. 



e. SkuU; rather young. (354 c^— 62. 7. 18. 14.) 



Purchased, 1862. 

 Labelled in Dr. Gray's handwriting " Tursio obscurus." 



f. Cranium. (81. 10. 28. 1.) 



Coquimbo, Chili C" Alert ' Exjjcdition). Admiralty [P.]. 



Collected by Dr. E. W. Coppinger. 

 A large specimen with long rostrum. 



g. Cranium. (1509 b.) 



Trustees of the South- African Museum [P.]. 

 Type of Chjmene simUis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 147, fig. 2 

 (palate). 



The specific determination of the three following specimens is 

 doubtful : — 



Skull, cranial portion much mutilated. (934 a — 49. 5. 25. 4.) 



West coast of America {Dr. Dicl-'te). Purchased, 1849. 



Type of Larjenorhynchus tlncoha, Gray, P. Z. S. 1849, p. 2. 



Afterwards Ehctra thicoha, Suppl. Cat. S. & W, 1871, p. 77. 



Figured among the supplementary plates of the Zool. Ereb. & 



Terr. pi. xxxvi. For observations upon this specimen, see P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 496. 



A very similar cranium of larger size. 

 No history. 



