72 THE PLAGIOSTOMIA. 



second dorsal wholly behind base of anal 



length of anal base about equal its distance from the caudal 



duhamelii (page 73) 

 length of anal base less than its distance from caudal 



capensis (page 74) 

 posterior nasal valves not cirroid 

 first dorsal at ends of ventrals 



second dorsal base with half its length behind the anal base 



marked by scattered spots as large as the eye, larger and 



smaller stellaris (page 57) 



Anterior nasal valves not reaching the mouth 

 posterior nasal valves broad, not cirroid 



first dorsal behind the ends of the ventrals 



second dorsal small, mainly behind the anal 



marked by a network of brown . . retifer (page 76) 

 marked by transverse series of blotches of brown and of 

 whitish boa (page 77) 



first dorsal at the ends of the ventrals; snout short 

 second dorsal small, at the end of the anal 



marked by transverse blotches of brown and by spots of 



whitish torazatne (page 77) 



first dorsal ending above the ventrals 



second dorsal small, half its base behind that of the anal 



uniform brown cephalus (page 78) 



Catulus caniculus. 



Galeus stellaris major Belon, 1553, Aquat., p. 73. 



Catulus minor Salviani, 1554, Aquat., fol. 137, 138, fig. 46; Aldrovandi, 1613, Pise. & Cet, p. 390; 



Will., 1686, Pise, p. 64, pi. B4, no. 2; Jonst., 1649, Pise, p. 25, pi. 8, f. 2. 

 Canicula aristotelis Rondelet, 1554, Pise, p. 380; Gesneb, 1558, Aquat., p. 198. 

 Catulus major vulgaris Ray, 1713, Pise, p. 22; Valmont, 1768, Diet. hist, nat., 4, p. 51 . 

 Squalus sp. Artedi, 1738, Ichthyologia, Gen., p. 68, 69, no. 10-11; Gronow, 1756, Mus. 2, p. 44, no. 



199; 1763, Zoophy., 1, p. 32, no. 144. 

 Squalus canicula Linne, 1758, Syst., 1, p. 234; Bonnaterre, 1788, Iehth., p. 6; Gmelin, 1789, Linne" 



Syst., 1, p. 1490; Risso, 1826, Hist, nat., 3, Poissons, p. 116. 

 Squalus catulus Linne, 1758, Syst., 1, p. 235; Brunnich, 1768, Ichth. Massiliensis, p. 5; Bloch, 1785, 



Ausl. fische, 1, p. 21, pi. 114; Gmelin, 1789, Linne" Syst., 1, p. 1490; Schn., 1801, Bloch Ichth., 



p. 127; Donovan, 1804, Br. fish., pi. 55; Risso, 1810, Ichth. Nice, p. 29; Gray, 1851, Chondro- 



pterygii, p. 29; 1854, Gron. syst., p. 5. 

 Lesser dog Jish Pennant, 1769, Zool., 3, p. 90. 



Catulus stellaris major Duhamel, 1777, Trait6, 3, sect, ix, p. 304, pi. 22, f. 1 . 

 Le squale rockier Lacepede, 1798, Poiss., 1, p. 233, pi. 10, f. 1. 

 Galeus caniculus Rafinesqde, 1810, Ind. itt. Sic, p. 46. 



