320 GLOBIOCEPHALIDiE. 



4. GloMocephalus Edwardsii. 

 " Head large and clumsy, rounded on the upper surface, and ter- 

 minating in front by a short, pointed snout. Teeth .^ ' ^^ . Eyes 

 situated a little above the angle of the mouth. Dorsal fin long, 

 pointed, slightly curved backwards, and situated nearly midway 

 between head and tail. Pectoral fins narrow, pointed; caudal fln 

 deeply and widely notched, opposite termination of vertebral column. 

 Colour black ; sides, throat, and upper part of the body towards the 

 tail black ; belly and sides white. Length, entire, 12^ ; circumference 

 in front of dorsal 6| ; tail, wide, 2| feet. 



Phoosena Edwardsii, A. Smith, African Zoology, 127. 



" Inhab. Seas about the Cape of Good Hope." 



Sir Andrew Smith observes, " Eor the description and a drawing 

 of this species I am indebted to M. E. Verreaux, who sometime ago 

 had a good opportunity of examining a specimen which had been cast 

 ashore near Slangkop." Sir Andrew Smith has kindly given me this 

 drawing; it is very lite Glohiocephalus Svineval of the European 



See also " Phoccena globiceps," A. Smith, African Zool. 126. 

 Inhab. South-east coast of Africa {A. Smith). 

 "I am unable to state the number of teeth, as the specimen I 

 possess is young." — A. Smith, I. c. 127. 



What is 



Delphinus Victorini, Gfrill (^Svenska Vetensh. Sand. 1860 ; Arch. Na- 

 turg. xxvii. 1861, 114) ? 



Blow-hole crescent-shaped. Black above, white below, both colours 

 being separated by an arched line running from the angle of the 

 mouth to the pectoral fin, and thence approaching the median line, 

 so that the lines of both sides are distant from each other only 1 to 

 2 feet in the region of the navel ; they are confluent at an acute 

 angle behind the vent. The lower surface of the caudal fin white ; 

 a white stripe, 3 feet long and 4 to 5 inches broad, commences a few 

 inches above the eyes. Length 19 feet (Swedish). 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. Discovered by Yictorin. 



b. Black, or only rather paler beneath. 

 5. Glohiocephalus macrorhynchus. The South-Sea Blachfish. 



Uniform black. Nose of skull short and broad, rounded in front, 

 nearly as broad in the middle as at the preorbital notch. Teeth 

 subcylindrical, f. Lower jaw rounded in front. Length 16, rarely 

 20 feet. 



GlobioQgphalus macrorhynchus, Qray, Zool. Ereb. &■ Terror, 33 : Cat. 



Cetac. B. M. 1850, 90. 

 Killer or BlacMah, J. Bennett, MS. Mus. Coll. Surg. 

 Blackfish of South Sea Whalora (Phocasna, s^.), Bennett, Whaling 



Voyage, ii. 233. fig. 



