3. BPIODON. '341 



Diodon (part), Lesson, 

 Aliama (part), Gray, P. Z. S. 1864, 242. 



Epiodon, Sq/mesque, Precis Somiol. 13 (1814) ; Anal. Nat. (no char.) ; 

 Bonaparte; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865. 



Cuvier remarks, describing the head of Z. cavirostris (Oss. Foss. 

 V. 350. t. 27. f. 3), that " oette tete a, comme on voit, de grands 

 rapports avec le Cachalot, et encore de plus grands avec I'Hyperoodon. 

 EUe ne diifere de ce dernier que parce que les maxiUaires ne se dres- 

 sent point sur les cotes du museau en cloisons verticales, et que 

 I'espece de mur derriere les narines ne se borne pas a s'elever ver- 

 ticalement, mais qu'il se recourbe pour former un demi-dome , au- 

 dessus de oes cavites. "—0«s. Foss. v. 352. t. 27. f. 3. 



Epiodon Desmarestii 

 Grey, white-streaked. Length 13 feet. 



Epi odon Uraanq,ntus, Rqfinesque, Precis Somiol. 13, 1814 (no character) . 

 Delphinus !M)iodon, Desm. Mamm. 521 ; Fischer, Syn. 516. 

 Heterodon Epiodon, Lesson, Man. 420. 



Ziphius cavirostris, Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 350. t. 27. f. 3 ; Duvernoy, Ann. 



Sd. Nat. 1850, xv. ; Arch. Naturg. 1852, 62 ; Gervais, Ann. Sci Nat. 



xiv. ; Zool et PaUont. Franq. t. 38. f. 1 (H^raut), f. 2 (Martigue), 



t. 39. f. 1-5 (head). 



Ziphius (Dioplodon ?) cavirostris, Gervais, Compt. Mendus, xxxi. 510, 



xxxii. 358; Ann. Sci. Nat. xiv. 5; Arch. Natury. 1852, 34. 

 Delphinus Desmarestii, Pisso, Fur. Merid. iii. 24. t. 2. f. 3 ; F. Cuv. 



Citac. 159. 

 Hjrperoodon de Corse, Doumet, Bull. Soc. Cuvier. 1842, 207. 1. 1. f. 2. 

 Delphinus Philippii, Cooco, Frichson, Arch. Nat. 1846, 204. t. 6. f. 6. 

 Hyperoodon Doumetii, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 68. 

 Hy-peroodon Gervaisii, Duvemoy, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1851, xy. 67. 

 Epiodon Desmarestii, Bonap. Faun. Ital. ?; Gray, P. Z. S. 1865. 

 (Diodon) Le Diodon de Deamajest, Lesson, Buffon, i. 124. t. 2. f. 2. 

 Orca (Desmarestii), Waaler, N. S. Amph. 34. 

 Hyperoodon Desmarestii, Gray, Cat. Cetac. B. M. 69. 

 Aliama Desmarestii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 242. 

 Hyperoodon, Gervais, Comptes Bendus, 1850 (7th Oct.), xxxi. 510, 

 xxxii. 358. 

 Inhab. Mediterranean. Coast of Frontignan, departement de 

 I'Herault, May 1850 (Gervais). Messina (Cocco). Nice (Bisso). 

 Sicily {Bafinesque). 



" Steel-grey, with numerous, irregular, white streaks ; beneath 

 white. Body thicker in the middle ; tail slender, long, keeled; 

 rounded on the beUy ; head not swollen, ending in a long nose ; 

 upper jaw short, toothless, lower much longer, bent up, and with 

 two large conical teeth at the end ; teeth nicked near the tip ; the 

 eyes small, oval ; blowers large, semilunar ; pectoral fins short ; dorsal 

 rather beyond the middle of the back, nearly above the vent ; the 

 caudal fin broad, festooned. Length nearly 16 feet. It difi'ers from 

 D. Diodon of Hunter in the forehead not being swoUen, and in the 

 lower jaw being produced and bent up, the pectoral being pointed, 

 the dorsal more obtuse, and the body being white-streaked." Tnhab. 



