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 Family V. DELPHINAPTERID^.^ 



"Wittout dorsal fin ; head rounded, shelving ; pectoral fin ovate 

 beak of the skull depressed, tapering, rounded at the end ; cervical 

 vertebrae more or less anchylosed (?) ; mandibular symphysis short; blade- 

 bone connected to fhe collar and breast bones by unusually enlarged 

 spinal processes. 



Genus DELPHiifAPTEErs,' Lacepede. 



Teeth small, slender, conical acute ; pectoral fin rather slender ; beak 

 of the skull elongate ; palate flat, not laterally grooved behind ; blade- 

 bone very broad, nearly semicircular ; lower jaw longest. 



DELPHiNAPTEEirs PEEOin:i, Lacepede. Peron's Dolphin. 



Synonyms — Delphinus P^ronii, Lacep. ; Cuvier, &c. 

 DelpJiinapterus leucorJiampkus, Peron. 



DelpMna'pterus Peronii, Lesson ; Jardine, Nat. Lib. ; Gray, 

 S. & W., p. 276, Suppl. p. 72. 

 Teeth iig, to joia, small, curved inwards. 



Colour, upper portion of the body deep black ; the beak, the inferior 

 portion of the sides, including the pectoral fins, with the exception of a 

 brown-black spot on their hinder margins, and the belly, of a pure and 

 dead white ; the two colours distinctly parted from each other. Length, 

 6 feet to 6 feet 4 inches. 



Inhab : South Atlantic ; New Guinea. 



Qenus Neomeeis, Gray. 



Teeth small, compreseed, slightly notched ; pectoral fin ovate, falcate; 

 beak of the skull short ; blade-bone large, triangular. 



Neomeeis^ PHOCiEKoiDES, Dussumier. The Neomeris. 



Synonyms — Belphinus pJioccBnoides, Dussum., Cuvier. 

 DelpMnapterws melas, Temminek. 

 Neomeris phoccBnoides, Gray, S. & "W., p. 306 ; Suppl., 82. 



Teeth J-^re to £i, compressed, oblique. 



Colour, black. Length, 4 feet. 



Inhab : Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Japan, Cape of Good Hope. 



' deVpUms, dolpliiii, and Kirrfpoj, -without (dorsal) fin. 



