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Tttesio Ctmodoce/ Gray. The Cymodece. 



Teeth S?, moderate, slightly incurved ; rather more than three in an 

 inch. 



This skull is very like that of T. metis, but smaller. 



Ttjesio A3USAI/AM, Eiippell. The Abusalam. 



Synonyms — Delphinws abusalam, Euppell. 



Tursio abusalam, Gray. S. & W., p. 261. SuppL, p. 74. 



„ ., 25 25 , 30-30 



Teeth si^j to ^To- 



Black, below white, with small dark spots. 



Inhab : Eed Sea, Cape of Good Hope. 



Ttjesio EtrETNOME, Gray. The Eurynome. 



Teeth IS. 



Inhab : South Sea. Bay of Bengal. 



The skull is like that of Tursio truncatus, but the beak is longer, 

 more slender, and more rounded. The teeth also are smaller. 



Ttjesio cataiauta, Gray. The Cape Melville Dolphin. 



Teeth ^ to ^, front lower teeth worn away, truncated. 



" The adult, which was a female, measured 7| feet in length, and 

 was of a very light lead-colour above and on the sides, gradually passing 

 into the dirty leaden-white of the lower parts, which were covered, as 

 also the flippers, with longitudinally elongated blotches of dark lead- 

 colour. Another specimen, also a female, but much smaller, was 

 exactly lead-colour, fading into whitish on the lower parts along the 

 belly. The sides were marked with small oblong spots of the same 

 colour as the back." M'Oillirrai/. 



Inhab : Nortli-west Coast of Australia. 



Thi« genus is represented in the collection of the Australian Museum 

 by several fine skulls (one in particular from "WoUongong), a mounted 

 specimen, and an entire skeleton of an adult ; the two latter being 

 obtained from an animal captured in the waters of Port Jackson. 



I am inclined to believe that the whole of these remains belong to 

 individuals of the same species, and that that species, provided it be 

 not the Tursio truncatus of the European Seas, is probably the one so 

 well described in the foregoing extract, by our late fellow-citizen Mr. 

 Macgillivray, and distinguished by Dr. Gray in his catalogue as Tursio 

 catalania. 



The wonderful similarity which exists in the anatomy of the dolphins 

 of this group, and in the size and colour of the few actually examined 

 while yet in the living state, renders it an almost hopeless task to 



' Greek name of a woman. 



