EO | Mr. LaATHAM's Ejay on 
Freficr® (aw a battle between feveral Saw/ifhes and a Whale, when 
all of them attacking the Whale at once, foon became viéto- 
rious. 
It is too plain, by the very little I have been able to colle& of 
the natural hiftory of the fubjeét of this paper, that the ancients 
had paid but little attention to it: to elucidate the matter is re- 
ferved for the more enlightened naturalifts of the prefent day; and 
it is to be hoped, that no opportunity of examination may hence- 
forth be neglected by thofe who may be fortunate in having 
fpecimens, more cien recent ones, país under their ob- 
fervation. 
Thofe who may wifh to retain the whole of the following un- 
der the genus of Squalus, will have no difficulty in adjufting them 
according to their wifhes: on the other hand, fuch as agree with 
me in feparating them therefrom, will fee beneath an attempt to 
form a new one under the name of 
PRIS ELS. 
Caput roftro elongato plano, utrinque fpinofo. 
Spiracula 4—5 ad latera colli. | : 
Corpus oblongum, teretiufculum, cute afpera coriacea, 
Os fab capite. © | : 
Nares ante os, lobo membranaceo femitectz., 
Pone oculos foramina ovalia duo. 
Pinne ventrales approximate, & in mare circa genitalia pofi tz. 
Pinna anales nulle. 
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* Voy. de la Mer. du Sud. 
: : I. ANTI- 
