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Beak rather less than one-third of the gape. Pectorals equal to the 
distance between the muzzle and the eye. Teeth, 22-33. Above and upper 
jaw, dark slate-blue, passing gradually into white below ; fins, slate-blue ; 
length, seven to ten feet; teeth, two to three in an inch. 
Habitat : West Coast Sounds to Cook Strait. 
This species was founded by Dr. Gray on a skull brought home by the 
Antartic expedition of the “ Erebus” and “Terror,” without a habitat. Subse- 
quently in his supplement to the “ Catalogue of Seals and Whales,” he gave 
West Afriea as its habitat, probably by mistake. In 1872 Dr. Hector 
determined a skull found in Dusky Bay as belonging to this species, and the 
subsequent capture of specimens by Captain Fairchild showed that he was 
right, and that the skull had been correctly referred by Dr. Gray to Tursio. 
ELECTRA CLANCULA. 
Lagenorhynchus clanculus, Gray, ** P.Z.S.,” 1849, p.2. Electra clancula, 
Gray, * Synopsis of Whales and Dolphins," p. 7, Pl. 85 (skull), 
Hector,“ Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. V., p. 160, Pl. (not good). 
Head not beaked; dorsal fin truncated ; panara slightly longer than 
the distance from susie toeye. Teeth, 31-33. Above, pale grey. Lower jaw, 
throat, and belly white, the white on the belly being divided by a transverse 
band of grey just behind the pectoral fins; nose and forehead white ; a 
white band from beneath the dorsal sloping obliquely upwards and back- 
wards towards the tail ; sides of the head, a transverse band just behind the 
blow-hole, and pectorals, dark slate-gray ; the dark band behind the blow- 
hole shading off gradually behind ; length, four to five feet; teeth, five in 
an inch. 
Habitat : Abundant all round the coasts of New Zealand; South Pacifie 
Ocean.—(Gray.) 
In the “ Trans. N.Z. Inst." Vol VI., p. 89, Dr. Gray gives D. superciliosus, 
Lesson, as a synonym of this species. Previously, in his ** Catalogue of 
Seals and Whales," he had given it doubtfully as a synonym of Clymenia 
obscura. But it is evidently quite distinct from either C. obscura or FE. 
clancula, for it is a beaked species, and looks like a Tursio. It was observed 
by Lesson off Cape Horn. 
Art. XL.—On the New Zealand Earth-worms in the Otayo Museum. 
By Captain F. W. Hutton, C.M.Z.S. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, June 6th, 1876] 
ate VII. 
I am not aware that any earth-worms have been as yet described from 
New Zealand, except Megasolex antarctica, Baird (Pro. Lin. Soc.," Vol. XL, 
