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bluish-grey, coarsely darkly punctate, two slightly oblique, 

 impunctate, ochraceous spots in transverse series on apical 

 area, the posterior angles prominently black ; scutelluin 

 bluish-grey, prominently, cruciately, ochraceously lariiiate ; 

 corium subhyaline with its apical margin black, reflecting 

 the dark abdomen beueatli which is black, and with the lateral 

 margins and some central spots dark ochraceous ; body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; antennae pale ochraceous, tlie 

 apical joint darkest, shorter than the second, but longer than 

 the third. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Hab. Queensland; Kuranda {T. P. Dodd). 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Re^^ort on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1917. 

 With 3 text-figures and 1 map. By S. F. Haemer, Sc.D., F.ll.S., 

 Keeper of the Department of Zoology. London : printed by 

 Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. 1918. 



This Report, the fifth in succession, records the stranding during 

 the year 1917 of 31 Cetaceans, belonging to at least 12 species, on 

 the coasts of the British Islands. Several of these are of quite 

 exceptional interest, and the male cachalot {Physeter catodon), 

 nearly 60 feet in length, which was found floating dead in the 

 Moray Firth and towed to the Caithness coast by a patrol boat, 

 heads the list in point of size. Other noteworthy records are those 

 of the rare northern white-sided dolphin {Lafjenorhynchus acutus) 

 from Skegness, Lines, observed for the first time in English 

 waters ; the equally rare Kisso's grampus {G. yriseus) and Cwvier's 

 beaked whale {Zijjhius cavirostris) from the coasts of South Devon 

 and Clare respectively ; and the large rorqual, probably Balceno- 

 ptera physalus, from the Scilly Islands. An interesting summary 

 of the occurrence and distribution of the commercially valuable 

 bottle-nosed whale (^Hyperoodon rostratus) in British waters appears 

 on p. 16. Although some of the animals were, when found, in 

 very bad condition, it is satisfactory to learn that in many cases 

 it was found possible to preserve the jaws and other hard parts for 

 identification and future reference ; and due acknowledgment is 

 given to the assistance of the coastguard and other authorities in 

 these observations, in the midst of more exacting duties. 



