CETACEA. 107 



1. DELPHINUS HEAVISIDII. The HASTATED DOLPHIN. 



Black, with a streak, and two diverging white lines beneath ; 

 teeth f f ; nose of skull nearly half the length of head ; lower 

 jaw truncated in front. 



Delphinus (Grampus) Heavisidii, Gray, Spic. Zool. 2. t. 2. f. 6, 



1828; Schlegel, Abh. t. 3. f. 1-4, t. 4. f. 6. 

 D. Capensis, Dussumier, MSS.; Cuv. R. A. i. 288, not Gray. 

 D. Dussumieri, Fischer, Syn. Mam. 656. 

 D. Cephalorhynchus, F. Cuv. Cetac. 158. 

 Marsouin du Cap, F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. 3. 

 D. hastatus, F. Cuv. Cetac. 161 ; Rapp. Get. t. 3. 

 Phocaena Homei, A. Smith, Zool. Journ. xvi; Bull. Sci. Nat. 



xviii. 276. 



D. tridens, A. Smith, 



Delphinus Homei, Fischer, Syn. Mam. 656. 

 Grampus Heavisidii, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 134. 

 D. Phocsenoides, Fischer, Syn. 657. 

 Inhab. South Sea, Cape of Good Hope. 



a. Stuffed skin. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by the Coun- 

 cil of the College of Surgeons. 



The specimen described and figured by Gray, Quoy, and A. 

 Smith. 



M. Quoy's description and figure, on which F. Cuvier founded 

 D. hastatus, are from the specimen originally described by me, 

 and now transferred from the College of Surgeons to the British 

 Museum. 



There is a skull, marked D. Cephalorhynchus. in the Paris Mu- 

 seum. Beak flat ; palate flat, rather concave behind ; teeth rather 

 blunt, f f ; orbits rather shelving ; symphysis of the lower jaw 

 very short, rather keeled below. Length, ll^; beak, 4f ; width 

 at notch, 2j inches. 



2. DELPHINUS OBSCURUS. DUSKY DOLPHIN. 



Black, with oblique diverging streaks on the side, and beneath 

 whitish; teeth ff-ff ; nose of skull about f of its length and 

 nearly 2^ the length of its width at the notch ; lower jaw trun- 

 cated in front. 



Delphinus (Grampus) obscurus, Gray, Spic. Zool. ii. t. 2. f. 2, 3 ; 



Gray, Zool. E. $ T. 37. 1. 16, skull. 

 Delphinus obscurus, Fischer, Syn. Mam. 656. 

 D. cruciger, Quoy Sf Gaim. Voy. Uran. 1. 12. f. 3, 4, from animal 



in ocean ; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 507. 

 D. bivittatus, D'Orb. Voy. Amer. Merid. Mam. t. 21, animal and 



