2. poEScopiA. 125 



Nat. Lib. vi. t. 6, He points out ttat Rudolphi and M. F. Cuvier, 

 in their description of B. longimana, have confounded the figure of 

 Baleine duCap auiRorqtMldu Gap, of Cuvier's ' Ossemens Fossiles,' 

 together. — Faun. Japan. 21, note. 



Gervais (Zool. et Paleont. Frang. t. 38. f. 7) figures some tympanic 

 bones under the name of Eorqualus de Bayonne. They are very like 

 those oi Megapteralongimmia, and are larger than those of Balce- 

 noptera rostrata. 



2. POESCOPIA. 



Blade-bone with a small coracoid process. Body of the cervical 

 vertebrae nearly square, with the angles rounded. 

 Inhab. South Sea. 



Megaptera, § Poescopia, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 207; Ann. & Man. 

 iV: a; 1864, xiv. 350. > > y y 



Kg. 19. 



The fifth cervical vertebra of Megaptera Lahndii. 



Ribs 14 ; the second, third, and fourth attached to the vertebrsB, 

 the rest to the processes. Vertebr® 52. — Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 382. 



The humerus very short ; forearm-bones nearly twice as long as 

 the humerus ; fingers 4, very long, the second longest, twice as long 

 as the lower arm-bone. Phalanges 3.8.8.4, the third finger nearly 

 as long as the second, the first and fourth much shorter, not half as 

 long as the first, thicker.— Guv. Oss. Foss. vi. t. 26. f. 22. 



According to Cuvier, it differs from the Greenland Megaptera in 

 the following particulars : — 



