BAL^NID^.. 



2. NEOBALffiNA. 



Neobalsena, Gray, Su,ppl. Cat. S. ^ W. p. 39 (1871). 

 Caperea, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 202*. 



1. Neobalsena marginata. 



Balrena marginata, Gray, Zool. Ereh. 8f Terr. p. 48 (1846). 

 Oaperea aatipodarum, Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 202. „d»is 



Neobalsena marginata, Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. ^ TV. p. 40 (1871). 



, Articulated skeleton, with the baleen. - (339 fif— 76. 2. 16. 1.) 

 New Zealand. Wellington Museum, 1876 [E.]. 



See Hector, Proc. N. Z. Inst. 1869, tab. 2 B. figs. 1-4 ; figure of 

 skull copied by Gray, Suppl. Cat. S. & W. 1871, p. 40. 



, Eight tympanic bone. (1467 a— 52. 5. 23. 1.) 



Otago, New Zealand. Mr. Stuart, 1852 [P.]. 



Figured in P. Z. S. 1864, p. 203, and Cat. 8. & W. p. 101 

 (1866), under the name of Caperea antipodarum, a species founded 

 upon this bone and Diefienbach's description and figure of the 

 external characters of quite a difierent Whale (probably B. 

 australis). When the skeleton of the present species became 

 fully known, it was evident that the tympanic bone belonged to 

 the animal previously described, from the baleen alone, under the 

 name of B. marginata. 



Three blades of baleen. (339 a, b, & c.) 



Western Australia. Mr. Warwick [P.]. 



Type of species. Described and figured, Zool. Ereb. & Terr. 



1 846, p. 48, pi. i. fig. 1. The hairy fringe on the inner side of the 



blade has been stripped off. 



'.. Three bladps of baleen. (339 d, e, & /.) 



New Zealand. Purchased. 



3. MEGAPTERA. 



Megaptera, Gray, Zool. Ereb. ^ Terr. p. 16 (1846). 



1. Megaptera hoops. 



(Humpback Whale.) 



? Balaena hoops, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 106 (1766). 

 Balsena hoops, Fahridus, Fauna Qrosnlandica, 1780, p. 36. 

 Balsena longimana, JRudolphi, Mem. Ac. Berlin, 1829, p. 133. 

 Megaptera boops. Van Beneden and Gervais, Ostiographie des CMacis 

 p. 120 (1869-80), and most modem authors. ' 



* It is somewhat difficult to say which of these names should have the pre- 

 ference. Caperea has priority, but it was applied to a species composed of two 

 diffefent animals, the external characters of one and the tympanic bones of 

 another. NeobaUsna was gi^en when all the characters were well determined 

 and haa been consequently generally adopted, Caperea falling into oblivion 



