136 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
ing lying in a fold between the eye and the first bronchial slit, 
and along a tortuous sinus, till it was found, on dissection, to 
enter a pharangeal pouch. Both male and female specimens had 
spiracles.* 
This species of shark is said to be a wanderer, having its chief 
location in the Bay of Gasgony, the coast of Spain, and the 
Mediterranean. The natives of Southern Italy, especially the 
Neapolitans, use the flesh of this and other species of sharks as 
food. The Porbeagle has been recognised for many years as a 
visitor to our southern coasts, such as the coast of Hastings, 
Brighton, and Cornwall. It has also been found on the east 
coast, in the Firth of Forth, and as far north as Caithness. Mr. 
W. Anderson Smith states that one was taken off Glen Sannox, 
Arran, in 1879, and since then two have been captured off Blair- 
more, while in 1890 one was caught in Loch Fyne. Mr. Thomas 
Muir, Ardentinny, a very intelligent fisherman, in whose hake-net 
the two Loch Long sharks were caught, states that during the last 
fifteen years this species of shark has been a frequent visitor to the 
waters of Loch Long, seldom a winter passing without one or more 
being caught in the hake-net. In one season five were captured. 
Although they appear to come to the Firth of Clyde following 
the shoals of herrings, they seem to frequent the deep waters 
of Loch Long, not only in the autumn but in the early months 
of the year, and that, too, at a time when there are no herrings 
in the Loch. According to Mr. Muir, their food seemed to be 
ground fish, such as dog-fish and hakes, In the two sharks under 
notice, the stomach of the male contained a considerable quantity 
of bones of large fish like hakes and haddocks, but neither herrings 
nor crustacea, while that of the female contained no food, and its 
contents had probably been emptied in dying in the net. So far 
as has yet been known, this species is innocent of the crime of 
attacking bathers, but its appearance and glare of eye are not 
reassuring, and much trust could not be put in its teeth were 
it compelled to act in self-defence. ’ 
* For further details on internal anatomy, &c., see Professor Dunlop’s 
paper on ‘‘ Loch Long Sharks (Porbeagle, Lamna cornubica of Cuvier),” in 
The Glasgow Medical Journal, Vol. xxxix., No. 1 (January, 1893), pp. 22- 
27. 
