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close behind pectoral, and its height 1% in its length. Second 
dorsal’s base about 534 in interdorsal space. Lower caudal lobe 
2% in length of upper. Pectoral short, its tip not reaching as 
far as posterior edge of dorsal, and greatest width of fin 144 in 
its length. Origin of ventral a little nearer posterior basal edge 
of first dorsal than origin of second dorsal. Color grayish, paler 
below. Iris whitish. Length 2334 inches. Great Egg Harbor 
Bay. 
The small sharks found abundantly about the inlets of Atlantic 
City, Anglesea and Cape May seem to belong to the present 
species. My example agrees fairly well with the figure given, by 
Muller and Henle. It does not seem likely that they are entirely 
all referable to the dusky shark, a species known at once by its 
long falcate pectorals. Those which I observed were frequently 
caught with dog fish. Mr. Wm. J. Fox reports sharks from 
Sea Isle City which are apparently this species. 
Carcharias ceruleus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 
P. 352. 
Squalus ceruleus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1858, p. 828. 
Genus Scotiopon Miller and Henle. 
The Sharp Nosed Sharks. 
Scoliodon terrze-novze (Richardson). 
Sharp Nosed Shark. 
Head 5%; depth 7; snout 2% in head; width of mouth 2%; 
interorbital space 24%; front edge of first dorsal 134; pectoral 
17#/,; length of caudal peduncle 2% ; upper caudal lobe 2% in 
rest of body. Body slender. Head depressed. Snout depressed, 
a little long, and rounded when viewed from above. Eye circu- 
lar, a trifle anterior. Mouth with rather deep gape, and a short 
labial groove at its angle on both upper and lower jaws, though 
former longer. Teeth entire, oblique, flat and points directed 
towards sides of mouth so that inner margins are more or less 
horizontal. Teeth not swollen at base, and each with a deep 
