RHACHIANECTES. MEGAPTERA. 17 



Rhachianectes glauctis Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 9, and Suppl., p. 478. Zool. Ser. Id. Mamm. 

 Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. i, 1904, 

 p. 40, pis. VI, VII, VIII. Zool. Ser. 

 Gray's Baleex Whale. 



Type locality. Coast of California. 



Geogr. Distr. Coast of Lower California, Mexico, to the North 

 Pacific and Arctic Oceans; Okhotsk and Bering Seas. 



Genus 17. 3Iesaptera. 



Megaptera Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zool., 1846, p. 16. Type 



Balcena longimana Rudolphi = Balccna nodosa Bonnaterre. 

 'Megapteron Wagn., Archiv f. Naturg., 1847, Bd. 11, p. 38. 

 KyphobakBua Eschr., K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, Naturv. 



& Math. Afd. Kjobenh., 5te Raekke, i, 1849, P- 108. Id. 



Unter. Nord. Wallth., 1849, P- S^- 

 Megapteropsis Van Ben., Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. 'de Belgique, 2e 



Ser, XXXIV, 1872, p. 15. 

 Poescopia Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, p. 207, fig. 3. Id. Cat. 



Seals and Whales Brit. Mus., 1866, pp. 113, 125, fig. 19. 



33. Mee:aptera nodosa (Bonnat). 



Balcena nodosa Bonn., Tabl. Encyclop. and Meth. des trois 



R^gnes de la Nature, Cetol., 1789, p. 5. 

 Balcena longimana Rudolphi, Abh. Ak. Berl., 1829, pis. 1-5. 

 Balcena hoops (nee Linn.) (keporkak) Eschr., K. Dansk. Vid. 



Selskabs. Ath., xl, 1845, p. 239, t. i, 3, 4. 

 Megaptera americana Gray, Erebus & Terror, Zool. 1846, p. 17. 

 Megaptera nodosa Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 

 1901, p. 10. Zool. Ser. 

 Arctic Baleen Whale. 



Type locality. Coast of New England States. 

 Geogr. Distr. Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. 



a. .Megaptei'd nodosa o.sphyia Cope. 



Megaptera nodosa osphyia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 

 1865, pp. 178-180. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. 

 Pub., II, 1901, p. 10. 

 Cope's Baleen Whale. 



Type locality. Coast of Maine forty miles from Petit Menan 

 lighthouse. 



Geogr. Distr. Atlantic Ocean. 



