On the North-Atlantic Fin- Whale Fishery. 403 



with black. The hiud tibiae may liave a cream-coloured 

 stripe on basal half. The face-raarkiugs in the specimens 

 described are more or less discoloured. 



? . — Similar, but the face is without light markings and 

 the area in front of the ocelli is brassy. 



Hub. Queensland {Gilbert Turner, 383 Hy., males, and 

 209 Hy., females). Two of each sex. 



The mouth-parts of this species seem not to be those of 

 true Prosopis ; it is probable that the Australian species 

 assigned to this genus should form the basis of one or two 

 new genera, but I do not feel able to offer a plan of segre- 

 gation just at present. 



Prosopis Lubbocki, n. n. 



Prosopis metallica, Smith, Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 59 (Australia, 

 in coll. of J. Lubbock), c? , not 5 . 



It seems very unlikely that the insects described as the 

 sexes of P. metallica are couspecific, and it will probably 

 cause less confusion if the male is separated under the above 

 name. 



Prosopis Frederici, n. n. 



Prosopis shnilis, Smith, Cat. PIvm. Brit. Mus. 1853, p. 20 (Australia). 

 Not of Fabricius, 1793. 



Prosopis Cameroni, n. n. 



Prosopis sulcifrons, Cameron, Mem. Manchester Soc. 1897, p. -jI (Xcw 

 Zealand;. Not of Smith, 18o3. 



University of Colorado, 



Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 



June 27, 1905. 



XLVI. — Some Results of the North-Atlantic Fin-Whale 

 Fishery. By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. 



Our knowledge of the specific distinctions, habits, and 

 distribution of the members of the famil}^ of Cetacea known 

 as the Balfenopteridse, or Fiu-Wliales, has until quite recently 

 been lamentably deficient, and even now it cannot be said to 

 be veiy complete. Tliis has undoubtedly been owing to tlie 

 wide dispersal of these animals over the oceans of the world, 

 their gigantic size, and to the circumstances under which 



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