1873.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON NEW-ZEALAND WHALES. 139 



Fig. 2 c. 



Cervical vertebra of Macleayius australiensis (back view). 

 Fig. 3. 



Sternum of Macleayius australiensis. 



In the British Museum there is a mass of cervical vertebrae which 

 was dredged up at Lyme Regis, on the coast of Dorsetshire. It is de- 

 scribed at length and figured in the Cat. Seals and Whales Brit. Mus. 

 p. 83, f. 3, as belonging to an unknown species of Balcena. The figure 

 is copied in M. van Beneden's ' Oste'ographie,' t. viii. f. 7, and referred 

 to Balcena biscayensis. In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (vol. vi. 

 pp. 198, 204, 1870) I called it Balcena britannica or Macleayius 

 britannicus ; and it appears under the latter name in the Suppl. Cat. 

 Seals and Whales, p. 46. Now we have the mass of cervical vertebrae 

 of the original Macleayius from New Zealand, it is quite clear that 

 the vertebrae from Lyme Regis do not belong to that genus, and are 



