CETACEA. 113 



** Beak of skull rather thick, conical, evenly tapering. 

 8. DELPHINUS METIS. The METIS. 



Skull globular ; back of blower tubercular ; nose thick, rather 

 conical, regularly tapering, upper part convex, rather longer than 

 the head and rather more than twice as long as the width at the 

 notch ; intermaxillaries convex, rather more than half the width 

 at the beak ; teeth f f , rather conical, acute, curved. 



D. Metis, Gray, Cat. Ost. B. M. 36 ; Zool. Ereb. & Terror, 38 



t. 18, skull. 

 Inhab. ? 



a. Skull. 



The specimen figured in the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror. 



in. lin. 



Skull : Length, entire 21 



of nose 11 9 



of lower jaw . . 17 



Breadth of orbit 96 



notch 5 



middle of beak 3 



This skull is like D. Euphrosyne, but differs in the nose being 

 rather shorter compared with the length of the head, more taper- 

 ing, and the teeth rather larger. It differs from D. Tursio in the 

 nose being much shorter and more conical and acute. 



9. DELPHINUS CYMODOCE. The CYMODOCE. 



Skull roundish; nose broad, rounded above, broad at the 

 base, gradually tapering in front and rather convex on the sides, 

 T V longer than the head, or rather more than half the entire 

 length and rather more than twice as long as the width at the 

 notch ; the triangular impression in front of the blower rather 

 elongate, extended rather beyond the line of the hinder teeth ; 

 teeth ff, moderate, conical, slightly incurved, acute (rather more 

 than three in one inch) ; lower jaw regularly converging, straight 

 on the sides, the front obliquely truncated, and the gonyx slightly 

 produced. 



Delphinus Cymodoce, Gray, Cat. Ost. B. M. 35 ; Zool. Ereb. $ 



Terror, 38. t. 19. 

 Hab. ? 



a. Skull ? 



The specimen figured in the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror, 

 t. 19. 



