12 PHTSETEKID^. TZA.TASJSTJI>M. 



4. Mesoplodou hectori. 



.Berardius hectori, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (ser. 4) viii- P- 117 



(1871). 

 Mesoplodon knoxi, Sector, Trans. N. Z. Inst. \. p. 167 (1873). 



a. Skull ; young. (1677 6—76. 2. 16. 3.) 



Titai Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand, January 1866. 



Colonial Museum, Wellington [E.]. 

 Type of species. 



Skull figured by Hector, Trans. N. Z. Inst. iii. (1870) pis. xiv. 

 & XV., and by Mower, Trans. Z. S. x. pis. Ixxi. & ixxii. 



Of uncertain Species. 



a. Waterworn terminal fragment of the rostrum of a Mesoplodon. 

 New Zealand. Dr. Hector, 1876. 



/3. Tootb of a Mesoplodon. (76. 2. 16. 13.) 



Chatham Island. From the Colonial Museum, 



Wellington, New Zealand. 



6. BERARDIUS. 



Berardius, Duvernoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. Z" s&v. Zoohgie, xv. p. 41 

 (1851). 



1. Berardius arnnxii. 



Berardius arnuxii, Duvernoy, loc. cit. p. 52. 



a. A tooth. (76. 2. 16. 14.) 



Chatham Island. From the Colonial Museum, 



Wellington, New Zealand. 



Family II. PLATANISTID2E. 



Subfamily PLATANISTIN^. 



1. PLATANISTA. 



Platanista, Wagler, Nat. Syst. Amph. Sfc. p. 35 (1830). 



1. Platanista gangetica. 



Delphinus gangeticus, Leheeh, Neue Schrift. Ges. not. M-eunde Berl 

 iii. p. 280 (1801). ' " 



<i. Stuifed specimen ; young. 



