j ‘from the decades of the ‘ Fauna’ which reached us after the previous sheets 
were printed off. 
nt Page 194. 
CARCHARIAS MELANOPTERUS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. 
. A Japanese specimen in the British Museum. 
Hab. Sea of Japan, in addition to habitats previously given. 
Page 195. 
PRIsTIOPHORUS CIRRHATUS, Lath. Linn. Trans. ii. pl. 26 et 27. (Pristis), 
Mill. et Henlé, seite 98. Squalus tentaculatus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. 630. 
Sq. anisodon, Lacép. iv. p. 679. 
The British Museum possesses various specimens from Australia, which may be divided 
into two groups; one having a more slender beak and the barbels placed midway between 
the base and tip, and the other having a wider beak, with the barbels nearer the base. There 
is a Japanese specimen also in the museum. 
Hab. Seas of Japan and Australia, 
Page 198. 
PTEROPLATEA JAPONICA, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. 
_ The British Museum possesses two foetal specimens from Japan which measure 53 inches 
across the disc, 3 along it, and 4% including the tail. They seem to differ very little from 
Pteroplatea micrura: 
_ Hab. Sea of Japan. 
TETRODON PaciLinotus, Temm. et Schl. F.J. Sieb. Rad. D.13; A. 11; 
C. 81; P. 15. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 8 inches long.) 
This Tetrodon is marked much like T. albo-plumbeus, but the spines extend further along 
_ the back to the tail, and there are some slight differences in the courses of the porous lines. It 
is probable nevertheless that it is the same species with albo-plumbeus, since there are two other 
_ Japanese specimens in the British Museum, which are intermediate between the two in the 
_ extent of the spiny surface and in other minute characters. This being the case renders it 
_ probable that the small specimen which we have reckoned to be a variety of ocellatus, under 
the name of var. guttulata, ought also to be referred to allo-plumbeus. 
_ Hab. Sea of Japan. 
‘Terropon RUBRIPES, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Rad. D.16; A. 13; 
OC, 91; P. 17. (Spec. Brit. Mus. from Japan, 19 inches long.) 
ab. Sea of Japan. 
(Temnonox LATERNA), Zetrodon pardalis, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. 
(Spec. Brit. Mus. 13 inches long. Rad. D.11; A. 11; C.9; P.17. 
__ The specimen shows more spots than are exhibited in Mr. Reeves’s drawing, and the nasal 
_cirrhus is scarcely so much developed, but there is no reason to doubt the identity of laterna 
and pardalis. The skin is smooth throughout, but pits slightly on the belly in drying. 
D4 Hab. Japan and China. Pulo Condore. 
% SeTRODON XANTHOPTERUS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Rad. D.16; A. 
- ‘14; C. 91; P. 18. (Spee. Brit. Mus. 144 inches long.) 
4 ‘Hab. Sea of Japan. 
‘Terrovon stictinotus, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Rad. D. 16; A.14; 
a 92; P. 15. (Spec. Brit. Mus. 15 inches long.) 
“Hab. Sea of Japan. 
FRODON STRIATUS, Temm. et Schl. F. J. Sieb. Rad. D. 11; A. 10; 
1s 94; P. 11. (Spec. Br. Mus. 53 inches long, 33 in diameter.) 
‘has the characters ascribed by Linnzus to hispidus; and it has much resem- 
