1. MEGAPTEEA. 119 



pierced with a large central perforation ; in another adutt specimen 

 of the same species it is imperforate. 



Fig. 14. 



Megaptera longimana. Esehr. Nordhv. t. 3. f. 2. 



1. Megaptera longimana. Johnston's Humpbacked Whale. 



■ Black : pectoral fin and beneath white, black varied ; lower lip 

 with two series of tubercles ; pectoral nearly one-third of the entire 

 length ; dorsal elongate, the front edge over end of pectoral ; throat 

 and beUy grooved. 



Female : upper and lower lip with a series of tubercles ; dorsal an 

 obscure protuberance. — Johnston, Trans. Newc. N. H. Soc. 1. 1. 



? Balaena musculus, Ascan. Icon. Iter. Nat. ill. t. 26, cop. Borniat. CH. 



E. M. t. 371 ; Schreh. Sdugeth. t. 335. 

 PBalssna Boops (Keporkak), O. Fdbr. Faun. Qrwnl. 36? (notXirew.); 



Twtcm, £nt. Favma, 16 ; Nilsson, Skand. Faima, 639. 

 Keporkak, Langhaandede Finhval, or Balaena Boops, Eschricht, K. 



Danske Vid. Selskabs Afh. 1845, xi. 239. t. 1, 3, 4. 

 Kyphobalaena (Boops), Eschricht, Nord. Waltthiere, 1849. 

 Kyphobalsena longimana, Van Beneden. 

 Kyphobalsena Boops, Eschricht, Nord. WaUthiere, 1849. 

 Baleena longimana, Riidolphi, Mem. Acad. Berl. 1829, 133. 1. 12 (mas), 



cop. Brandt ^ Eatzeburg, t. 15. f. 2. 

 Balsenoptera longimana, Eapp, Cetac. 35. 

 Whale, Johnston, Trans. Newcasth N. H. Soc. i. 6. t. 1 (female, on 



back). 

 Megaptera longimana, Oray, Zool. E. % T.ll ; Proc. Zool. Sac. 1847, 



92 ; Cat. Cetac. B. M. ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 207. f. 5, 6, 7 ; Ann. 8f 



Mag. N. H. 1864, xiv. 350. 

 Megapteron longimana. Gray, Zool. E. i^ T. 51 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 



89. 



Inhab. North Sea ; mouth of the Maese (Budolphi). Newcastle 

 {Johnston). 



a. Stuffed specimen, young. Greenland. Professor Eschridit'a Col- 

 lection, as Megapteron Boops, Eschricht, 



