4 bal^>t;d^.. 



2. NEOBALiENA. 



Neobalaena, Gray, Suppl Cat. S. <§• TF. p. 39 (1871). 

 Caperea, Grat/, P. Z. S. 18(H, p. 202*. 



1. Neobalaena marginata. 



Balsena mar^nata, Gray, Zool. Ereh. fy Terr. p. 48 (1846). 

 Caperea antipodarum, Graij, P. Z. S. 18(>4, p. 202. 

 Neobaloena marginata, Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. ^- XT. p. 40 (1871). 



a. Articulated skeleton, with the baleen. (339 7 — 76. 2. 16. 1.) 

 Xew Zealand. "Wellington Museum, 1S76 [E.]. 



See Hector, Proc. X. Z. Inst. 1S69, tab. 2 B. figs. 1-1 : figure of 

 skull copied by Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. & W, lS71.^p. 40. 



h. Eight tympanic bone. (1467 a — 52. 5. 23. 1.) 



Otago, Xew Zealand. Mr. Stuart, 1S52 [P.^. 



Pigured in P. Z. S. 1864, p. 203, and Cat. S. & W. p. 101 

 (1S66). under the name of Caperea aniijioJaruni, a species founded 

 upon this bone and Dieffenbach's description and figure of the 

 external characters of quite a ditfereut Whale (probably B. 

 australi-s). When the skeleton of the present species became 

 fully known, it was evident that the tympanic bone belonged to 

 the animal previously described, from the baleen alone, under the 

 name of B. marginata. 



c Three blades of baleen. (339 a, b, & c.) 



Western Australia. Mr. Warwick "P.]. 



Type of species. Described and figured, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. 



1846, p. 4S, pi. i. fig. 1. The hairj" fringe on the inner side of the 



blade has been stripped off. 



d. Three blades of baleen. (339 d, e, &/.) 



>ew Zealand. Purchased. 



3. MEGAPTEEA. 

 Megaptera, Gray, Zool. Ereb. Sf Terr. p. 16 (1846). 



1. Megaptera hoops. 



(Humpback Whale.) 



? Balsena boops. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 106 (1766). 

 Balaena boops. Eabricius. Fauna Gra-nlandica, 1780, p. .36. 

 Balaena longimana. Eudolphi, Mem. Ac. Berlin, 1829, p. 1.3.3. 

 Megaptera boops. Van Beneden and Gercais. Osteographie des Cetaces, 

 p. 120 (1869-80), and most modem authors. 



* It is somewhat difficult to say which of these names should hare the pre- 

 ference. Caperea has priority, but it was applied to a species composed of two 

 different animals, the external characters of one and the tympanic bones of 

 another. Neobal<sna was given when all the characters were well determined, 

 and has been consequently generally adopted, Caperea falling into oblivion. 



