7. ZTGJENA. 381 



cL Head of an adult example. India. Presented by General 



Harawicke. 

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

 f-g. Half-grown and young : stuffed. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 h. Half-grown : dried. Coast of Malabar. 



2. Zygsena malleus. 



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



p. 408 ; Jotiston, tab. 7. fig. 8 ; WUlughhy, pi. B 1. 

 Zygsena, Rondel, p. .389 ; Gesner, De Aquat. p. 1050. 

 Squalus, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. 44. uo. 7 ; Synon. p. 96. no. 7 ; Gronov. 



Mm. Ichth. i. pp. 63, 139 ; Zoophyl. p. 146. 

 Zygene, Dutertre, Hist. Nat. ii. p. 207 ; Duhmnel, Pesches, ii. sect. ix. 



pi. 21. figs. 3-8. 

 Squalus zygsena, L. Syst. Nat. p. 399 ; Bl. tab. 117; Bl. Schn. p. 131 ; 



LacSp. 1. p. 257; Briinn. Pise. Mass. p. 4; Forsk. Descript. Anim. 



p. xviii ; Mitch. Trans. Lit. 8f Phil. Soc. New York, i. p. 284 ; 



Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 6. 

 Cestracion, sp. no. 1, Klein, Pisr. Miss. iii. p. 13. 

 Comuda, Parra, lam. 32. 

 Koma sorra, Russell, pi. 12. 

 Squalus maUeus, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 34. 

 Zygsena madleiis, Show, Nat. Misc. pi. 267 ; Val. Mem. Mus. ix 1,832, 



p. 233, pi. 11. fig. 1 ; Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 126; Cant. Quart. 



Med. Journ. Calcutta, 1837, fig. 1 ; Schley. Fauti. 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 York Faun. Fish. 



p. 362, pi. 62. fig. 204; Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. i.p. 36; 



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



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



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



Sphyma zygaena, Miill. 8f Hemic, p. 51 ; Bonap. Faun. Ttal. Pesce ; 



Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 401 ; Socage ^ CapeUo, Pdx. Plagiost. p. 17. 

 Cestracion zygsena, GiU, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii. p. 403 ; 



Duni4ril, Elasjnobr. p. 382 ; Day, Fish Malab. p. 270. 

 leeuwenii, Du7neril, I. e. 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-b. Young. Mediterranean. 

 c. Young : stuffed. 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. P. Wright's Col- 

 lection. 

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

 m. Young. Moluccas. 



