CETACEA, EDENTATA. Mdmm. 37 
Mesocetus agrami, sp. n. (foss.), P. J. Van Benedeu, Mem. Ac. Belg., 
Croatia. [Not seen by Recorder ; cf. Am. Nat. xvi. p. 1027.] 
Physeteridas. 
Physeter macrocephalus. A full account of the anatomy and external 
characters, with numerous figures, of a specimen of this species stranded 
at Porto S. Giorgio, Italy ; L. De Sauctis, Atti Acc. Rom. ix. p. 1G0, 
1881. 
Allyperoodon. On the species of this genus ; W. H. Flower, P. Z. S. 
1882, p. 722. The author, relying on the evidence given in the paper 
next quoted, considers the specific identity of Ii. latifrons , Gray, with the 
common II. rostratus as finally established, the former merely represent- 
ing the adult male of the species. 
Hyperoodon rostratus. On its characters and habits ; D. Gray, P. Z. S. 
1882, p. 72G. Valuable notes are made on the distribution, habits, and 
commercial valuo of this specios, accompanied by figures showing the 
manner in which the shape of the head of the male changes during 
growth. 
Hyperoodon planifrons , sp. n., W. H. Flower, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 392, 
Dampier Archipelago, N. W. Australia. 
Mesoplodon bidens. On a specimen of this rare whale captured in 
Shetland ; W. Turner, J. Anat. Phys. xvi. p. 458. 
Delphinjdao. 
Capellini, G. Del Tursiops courtesii e del delfino fossilo di Momber- 
celli uell’ Astigiano. Rend. Acc. Bologn. 1881-2, p. 88. 
[Not seen by Recorder ; cf. Zool. Anz. vi. p. 265.] 
Van Beneden, P. J. Memoire sur les Orques observes dans les mers 
d’Europe. Mem. Ac. Belg. xliii. Art. 5. 
The author believes that there is but a single species of Orca y namely, 
0. gladiator. 
Globiocephalus nielas. A full and interesting account of the fishery 
for the so-called “ Grind-Whale” iu the Faeroe Islands is given by H. C. 
Muller in Fish and Fisheries, Art. i. 1882 [published 1883]. 
Pseudorca P mediterranean sp. n., H. H. Giglioli, Zool. Anz. 1882, p. 288, 
Mediterranean. This is the species to which the anterior part of a man- 
dible, figured in the Osteographie des Cetaces, pi. lxiv. fig. 3, should be 
referred. 
EDENTATA. 
^Flower, W. II. On the Mutual Affinities of the Animals composing 
the Order Edentata. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 358. 
The author entirely abolishes the old division of this Order into the 
Phytophaga and the Entomophaga ;, and shows that all the New World 
forms are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the 
