Zoology.'] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. [Fishes. 



on the snout) is exaggerated in Couch's figure. De Kay's figure 

 and one of Shaw's ridiculously exaggerate the wrinkling of the 

 tskin, and all show one or another variation of badness, mutually 

 correcting each other, but rendering the figure here given very 

 desirable. 



Explanation of Figures. 



Plate 104. — Fig. 1, side view of male, one forty-second part of the natural size (an apparent 

 doubling of the spiracle is an accident in the lithography). Fig. la, front view of mouth open, 

 to show the rows of very small teeth, and front view of head, to show the position of nostrils 

 on edge of upper lip. Fig. \b, portion of skin, magnified two diameters. Fig. \c, one of the 

 thorns, magnified nine diameters. Fig. Id, portion of skin, natural size, to show the wrinkles 

 or ridges and the thorny spines inclined in every direction. Fig. le, six rows of teeth from 

 front portion of left side of lower jaw, natural size. Fig. If, same, viewed in profile, to show 

 curvature of surface to which the teeth are attached. Figs. \y and 1/;, two of same teeth, 

 magnified two diameters. Fig. It, two of the rows of teeth from portion of upper jaw, natural 

 size. Fig. Ik, one of same, magnified two diameters. 



Frederick McCoy. 



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