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A lar^e shark of the warm seas, occasionally taken in pAirope and 

 on the coasts of Japan and California. A mounted specimen from off 

 jNIisaki is in the Imp(M-ial Museum of Tokyo, and a photoo-raph is in the 

 Imperial I'niversity, takiMi from a larjj-e specimen secured at Misaki. 

 We have no six'cimens. Whether this species is really identical with 

 th<» Euroi)e:in (jldttcn is uncertain. 



[y\(\VKog. oruyish l)hie.) 



13. CARCHARIAS Rafinesque. 



Carrharias Rafinesque, C^aratteri Alcuni, Nuovi Generi, 1810, p. 10 (in inten- 

 tion; the only species named being C. taurus, an Odontaspis) ; Squulus car- 

 chari((x R-afinesqce, not of Linnfeiis, being the intended type as shown by 

 the Indice d'lttiologia SioiUana, 1810, j). 44, where the Pesce-Cane of Sicily is 

 called ( '(ircharias lamia. The definition of Rafinesque, copied f rf)ni Lacepede, 

 is intended to cover the shai-ks allied to C. laiiiia. 



Carrharias Cuvier, Regne Animal, 1st ed., 1817, p. 125 {carcJianas, expressly 

 identified with Canis carcharias oi Belon [de Aquatilibus, I, p. 60], which is 

 the species commonly called, after Rafinesque, Carcharias lamia). 



Carrharinns Bl.vixville, Journ. Phys., 1816, p. 264 {rommersoni, a name based 

 on Lacepede's figure of "Squalus carchariax;" it apiiarently represents Car- 

 cJiaria.'f lamia). 



Enlamia CIill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, p. 401 (lamia). 



I 'lalypodon GihL, Ann. Lye. Nat. PTist. N. Y., 1861, p. 401 {menisorrah). 



fsof/omphodon Gii.1., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, ]>. 401 {o.njrhyncus) 



//r/y//'oy;.s/.s' (Jill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, ]). 401 {frmmiiicl-i). 



Body ratiun- i-olnist. Head broad, depressed; mouth inferior; teeth 

 in both jaws strongly serrated in adult, less so or entire in young; 

 those in upper jaW l)road or narrow, those below narrow, straight and 

 nearly erect. No spiracles. First dorsal large, placed not far behind 

 pectorals; pectorals falcate; second dorsal small. Embryos attached 

 by placenta to the uterus, as in ScoUodon, TriaMx^ and GdJeux. 

 Species very numerous and difficult of separation. Voracious sharks 

 of the Avarni seas. 



If the name Careh<n-l<is be transferred to Odo/ittf.yri.s, the present 

 g(Muis must be called Ckircharhinut^. 



(/crv/j^rvp/^r?, an old name of C. lamia., from jo'px'^/-'"? jagged; the 

 name first applied to Squatina, fi'om its rasp-like skin.) 



13. CARCHARIAS JAPONICUS (Schlegel). 

 MEJIUO (WHITE EYE); WANIZAME (CROCODILE-SHARK). 

 J'rinnoddii japdiiica.^ SciiLEciEL, Fauna .Taponica, Poiss , 1850, p. 802; Nagasaki. 



Head 5;^ in length; depth about T; snout 21 in head; width of mouth 

 2n; interorltital space 111; pectoral alwut 11; ; snout from tip to tip of 

 mandil)le 2^; eye -t in interor])ital space. 



Bod}' rather elongate, back high, elevated, tail compressed and 

 taprring. Head very broad, depressed, flattened, neck and back 

 rapidly becoming elevated behind; snout in profile elongate, more or 



