7. ZYG.KNA. 381 



</. Head of an adult example. India. Prcsouted by General 



Hurdwicko. 

 e. Young. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 /-(/. Half-grown and young : stuffed. Pinang. P'rom Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 /(. Half-grown : dried. Coast of Malabar. 



2. Zygsena malleus. 



Libella, Bellon. De Aquat. p. 61 ; Salvian, p. 128, tab. 40 ; Aldrov. 



p. 408 ; Jonston, tab. 7. fig. 8 ; Willughhy, pi. B 1. 

 Zygaena, liondel. p. ."iSO ; Gesner, De Aquat. p. 1050. 

 8qiialus, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. 44. no. 7 ; Si/nun. p. 96. no. 7 ; Gronov. 



Mus. Ichth. i. pp. 63, 139; Zooph/l. p. 146. 

 Zygene, Ihiterfrc, Hist. Nut. ii. p. 1*07 ; Duhamel, Pesches, ii. sect. ix. 



pi. 21. figs. 3-8. 

 Squalus zygjena, L. Si/st. Nat. p. 399; Bl. tab. 117; Bl. Scfm. p. 131 ; 



Lac^p. 1. p. 257 ; Briinn. Pise. Mass. p. 4 ; Forsk. Descript. Anirn. 



p. xviii ; Mitch. Trans. Lit. ^ Phil. Soc. Netv York, i. p. 284 ; 



Gronov. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 6."' 

 Cestraciou, sp. no. 1, Klein, Pise. Miss. iii. p. 13. 

 Cornuda, Parra, lam. 32. 

 Koma sorra, Russell, pi. 12. 

 Squalus malleus, liisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 34. 

 Zygiiena malleus, Shaic, Nat. Misc. pi. 267 ; Val. Mem. 3Ius. ix. 1832, 



p. 223, pi. 11. tig. 1 ; Pisso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 125 ; Cant. Quart. 



Med. Jvurn. Calcutta, 1837, fig. 1 ; Schley. Faun. Japon. Poiss. 



p. 306, pi. 138 ; Jenyns,^ Man. p. 507 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. 2nd edit. 



ii. p. 504, or 3rd edit. ii. p. 486 ; Dekay, New Turk Faun. Fish. 



p. 362, pi. m. fig. 204 ; Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. i. p. 36 ; 



Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Play. p. 42, pi. 3. fig. 8 ; Couch, Fish. 



Brit. Isl. ;. p. 70, pi. 16. 



lewiui, Griff. An. Kingdom, x. p. 640, pi. 50. 



Sphyi-na zygaena, Midi. ^- Henle, p. 51 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Pesce ; 



Cant. Mai. Fi^h. p. 401 ; Bocaye 4' Capello, Pei.r. Plciyiost. p. 17. 

 Cestracion zygasna. Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. Neic I'or^, vii. p. 403 ; 



Dundril, Elasmobr. p. 382 ; Day, Fish. Malab. p. 270. 

 leeuwenii, Dumeril, I. c. p. 383. 



The length of the hinder margin of one side of the hammer is 

 nearly equal to its width near the eye. Nostril close to the eye, 

 prolonged into a groove running along nearly the entire front mar- 

 gin of the head. 



Tropical and subtropical seas. 



a-h. Young. Mediterranean, 

 c. Young : stuft'ed. Mediterranean. 

 d-e. Half-grown. Madeira. 



/. Young. West Africa. Presented by Lieut. Strickland. 

 g. Young. British Guyana. From Dr. Bancroft's Collection. 

 h. Half-grown. Zanzibar. Presented by Lieut. -Col. Playfair. 

 i-k. Half-grown. Seychelles. From Prof. E. 1'. Wright's Col- 

 lection. 

 I. Young. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 m. Young. Moluccas. 



