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GIOBIOCEPHAIIDiE. 



phirms fflobieeps), which was presented by Fred. D. Bennett, Esq., 

 F.Z.8. It is thus described by Professor Owen : — 



" Number of alveoli g-^=30. The skull corresponds closely with 

 that of the Belphinus glohieeps of Cuvier, figured in ' Ossemens Fos- 

 sUes,' torn. v. part 1. t. 21. f. 11-13. It differs in the closer prox- 

 imity of the occipital condyles to each other below, and the end of 

 the flattened upper jaw is rather more obtusely rounded." 



In the same collection there is a second skull of the Eound-headed 

 Grampus {Delphmus glohieeps), wanting the lower jaw, presented by 

 Lieut. Colquhoun. 



" The Blackflsh of Desolation, near Kerguelen's Land, is about 

 11 feet long. Head longish, with a rounded nose ; both jaws with 

 numerous small teeth. Dorsal fin near the middle of the back, not 

 arched backwards. Body small, entirely black. Spout not per- 

 ceptible. This whale is oftefi thrown ashore in the bays of the 

 islands." — Nunn's Narrative. 



6. Globiocephalus Indicus. 



Globioeephalus Indicus, Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. xix. 425 ; xxi. 358 



(1852) ; xxviii. 490. 

 Blackflsh of the Bay of Bengal, Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 



xix. 426. 



The " Blackfish " of the seamen of the Bay of Bengal. It is 

 found in the Bay of Bengal, occaaionally ascending, in or about July, 

 the Grangetic rivers. There is the skeleton of an adult male and 

 a mounted skeleton of a female from a great shoal, " schule " or 

 " school," which found their way into the salt-water lake near, and 

 the skeleton of a newly-born female, procured in the Calcutta fish- 

 market in 1850, in the Museum at Calcutta. There is in the same 

 museum a stuffed specimen of a young animal, 6^ feet in length, 

 which was procured in the Hugli, near Serampore. 



A shoal of several dozen was seen floundering about in the shallow 

 water and groaning painfully. The natives towed them ashore into 

 the river as they died, having no notion of extracting oil from their car- 

 cases. The weather was terrifically hot. — Joum.Asiat. Soc. xix. 426. 



Mr. Blyth observes, " The species is well distinguished from Gl. 

 deductor of the Atlantic, of which we have a fine skull of an old 

 animal for comparison. The intermaxillaries of the Indian species 

 are shorter and one-fourth broader, and the teeth are considerably 

 stoTiter. Colour of the animal uniform leaden black, slightly paler 

 underneath. Length of an adult male 14 feet 2 inches, flippers 

 2 feet 6 inches in greatest breadth. Length of the dorsal fin 2| feet, 

 and height 11 inches, breadth of the tail-flukes 3 feet, and from 

 vent to cleft of the tail 4 feet 10 inches. Adult female rather small. 

 The skeleton of the female set up in our museum has a series of 49 

 vertebrse : in addition to the united cervical, there are 11 dorsal or 

 costal, 12 lumbar without the articulated V-bones, 16 with the 

 latter, and 10 small caudal within the tail-flukes." 



Perhaps a Neomeris. 



