30' • LAMNIIKK. 



Squalus nasus, Wulbatun, Ariedi, iii. p. '517. 



pennanti, JValbaimi, I. c. 



glaucus, Gunner, Nmsk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. iv. p. 1. 



mouensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 2. p. 350; Jetu/ns, M««.p. 501. 



selanonus, Leach, Weimer. 3Iem. ii. p. 04, pi. 2. fig. 2. 



? Sciualus rostratus, Sav, Macri, Mem. Accad. Sc. Napol. 1819, i. p. 55, 



tab. 1. fig. 2 (very bad). 

 Lamna comubica, Flem. Brit. An.-^. 168; Midi. ^- Henle,T^.Q7 ; Yar- 



rell, Brit. Fish. 2ud edit. ii. p. 515, or 3rd edit. ii. p. 498 ; Parnell, 



Werner. Mem. vii. p. 413 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital. Peso. ; Ar/ass. Poiss. 



Foss. iii. p. 287, tab. G. figs. 3rt-3f/; SchJe(j. Faun. Japon. Poiss. 



p. 304; Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv. p. 251 ; Kroyer, Danm. 



Fish. iii. p. 852 ; Xilss. Shand. Faun. Fisk. p. 718 ; Dmniril, Ekis- 



niohr. p. 405 ; Bocaye &■ Capello, Peix. Playiost. p. 12. 

 SelaiioniiLS walkeri, Flem. Brit. An. p. 169. 

 Squalus ( Carchaiiims) lamia, Blainv. Fann. Fraug. p. 88. 



( ) cornubicus, Blainv. I. c. p. 96, tab. 14. fig. 2. 



? Carcharias giiseus, Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 1844, p. 293, 



pi. 12. fig. 4 (bad). 

 Isurus cornubicus, Gray, Catal. Chondropt. p. 58. 



Prseoral portion of the snout longer than the longitudinal axis 

 of the cleft of the mouth, conical, pointed. Angle of the mouth 

 nearly midway between the gill-opening and nostril. Teeth j^rjj 

 on each side, lanceolate, with a small basal cusp on each side in 

 adult specimens ; in young specimens these cusps are absent. The 

 third tooth on each side of the upper jmv is very small. The width 

 of the first gill-opening is nearly equal to its (hstance from the last. 

 Origin of the dorsal fin above the root of the pectorals, which are 

 somewhat falciform, the length of their lower margin being nearly 

 one-fourth of that of the upper. 



Vert. 155, 74 of which are between the skull and second dorsal 

 fin. 



Atlantic : Mechterranean ; Japan. 



a-h. Adult, male and female, 8 feet long : stufted. English coast. 



c. Fine young specimen, '.^^ feet long. Eastbourne. Presented by 



Mr. Gerrard. 



d. Half-grown : stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieut. H. F. 



Spence, R.N. 

 r. Half-grown : stuffed. English coast. 

 f-y. Jaws of adult examples. 

 h. Skeleton of a young example. 



2. Lamna spallanzanii. 



Cauis carcharias, Aldrorand. p. 388. 

 ? Spallanzani, Viayy. Sic. iv. p. 325. 

 Lamna punctata, (not Mitch.) Storcr, Bast. Journ. Nat. Hist. ii. 



1830, p. 534, pi. 8. fig. 2 ; Dekat/, New York Faun. Fish. p. 362, 



pi. 63. fig. 206 *. 

 Oxvrhina spallanzanii, Bonap. Faun. Ital. 7V«c ; Dumeril, Elasnwhr. 



p. 408. 



* In this figure the doi-diii fin is ))laced ;is m L. yktuca. 



