On two subfossil Whales discovered in Sweden. 



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sissimus, proeessibu's transversis verticaliter oblique compressis, brevibus, superi- 

 oribits, arcn inferior e hypapophysi postico Vertebrae ceterae cervicales fora- 

 mine spinali fere aeque alto ac lato, omnes processibus transversis apertis. 

 Sternum antice latum, excavatum , processibus lateralibus magnis , alaeformibus, 

 oblique truncatis; postice prpcessu longo, teretiusculo , acurninato, ad basin pro- 

 cessus articulares pro cartilagine parts l mi costarum gerente. Scapula acromion 

 et processum coracoideum gerens, latitudine longitudinem 3 ta fere parte superante. 

 Species unica: 



E. ROBUSTUS (Lilljeborg). 

 E terra in Svecia media in Upplandia effossus. 



In the above cited work on the Cetacea af Scandinavia 1 ) I have 

 given a detailed account of the circumstances under which the Whale-bones 

 here described were found: that the field in Graso, Roslagen, where the 

 bones were dug- up, lies 10 — 15 feet above, and 840 feet distant from the 

 sea; that they lay partly in sand and partly in clay, at a depth of from 2 

 to 4 feet; and that with them were found shells of the Mytilus edulis and 

 Tehina balthica of precisely the same appearance as those now met with 

 in the Baltic. 



J. Gray states 2 ) that he has received from the shores of the English 

 Channel a pair of cervical vertebrae of this Whale, which had been thrown 

 on shore by the waves at Babbicombe Bay. He has appended a figure of 

 the one of them, which presents a close agreement with the above descri- 

 bed in the form of the corpus and direction of the lateral processes, but, 

 as it is destitute of arcus, the identification cannot be considered as abso- 

 lutely certain. 



HUNTERIUS SVEDENBORGII, n. sp. 



The bones discovered show, that the individual to which they be- 

 longed was wery young, but the caput of the bladebone shows nevertheless 

 evident signs of the place of junction of an as yet cartilaginous processus 

 coracoideus; and partly on this ground, partly on that of the peculiar form 



') Ofversigt :if Skandinaviens Hvaldjur, Upsala Universitets Arsskrift 1801 

 och 1862; afterwards published by the Ray Society 1806 in English. 



-) Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum, pag. 133 and 373. 



