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Diengkitsch observed that at Osaka it is called cog-owoo, which signifies rowing or paddling 
fish. Whoever has looked ata live box-fish in water would agree that this name was quite 
appropriate. 
61. TRIAKIS SCYLLIUM, M. and H. 
TRIAKIS scyLiIuM, Miiller and Henle ; Beschreib. der Plagiostomen, p. 63, pl. 26. 
Wart’s sHark, Latham, Phillips’ voy. to Botany Bay, 1789, p. 285, and plate. 
PLATE XII, fig. 1. Male reduced. 
Nores.—From Simoda, (4 feet, Sa-me,) 
Of this curious fish but one specimen was brought home by Mr. Biirger, which is now in the 
museum at Leyden, and on it Messrs. Miiller and Henle founded a new sub-family, genus and 
species. Mr. Gerrard, in his list of Chondropterygii of the British Museum, 1851, p. 55, 
enumerates this and another species, the 7. Californica, from a foetal specimen procured 
"n California, but without adding any description. A dried skin of the 7. Scyllivm was brought 
home by a member of the United States Expedition, and is now in Philadelphia. It seems to 
have escaped the notice of the above naturalists, who quote the next species from Governor 
Phillips’ voyage, that this one is also figured there, from a female, and described as Watt’s 
shark in the same work. The figure there given resembles the one now published so nearly in 
form that there can be no doubt of their identity, though Phillips’ seems to have annular spots, 
arranged in regular series. 
The colors are, brownish slate above, and rather purplish below, blotched and clouded with 
dark brown on body and fins in an irregular manner. Throat and abdomen white. Irides 
yellow. The two appendages on the anterior part of the snout are longer than the others, and 
have a short branch on the outside of their base. Behind those, on each side, are three pair of 
shorter barbels. Some of these appear in another sketch to have short branches also. Eyes 
oval. Nostrils not indicated. Large spiracles behind and below the eyes. Branchial openings 
large, and above base of pectorals. Pectorals set far back, broad and heavy. Dorsals close 
together, and behind the ventrals, which last are large and broad. Male appendages long. 
Anal below and behind the second dorsal. Lobes of caudal small, with deep indentation near 
the end of the upper one. The figure in the voyage de la Coquille does not indicate this feature. 
62. HETERODONTUS PHILLIPPI. 
Port JAcKsON SHARK, Latham, Phillip’s voyage, ed. 4to. 283, and plate. 
Hereropontus Pariirerr, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil., 121, (1816.) 
ss Puinirprt, Gerrard, List of fish, &c., pt 1, p. 66. 
CrstRacton Puinirprr, Cuvier, R. A., 3d ed., II., 391, (1829.) 
se Puiiiiprr, Lesson, (1830,) Duperrey. Voy. II., pt. 1, 97 Poiss., pl. 2. 
mae Puruurprr, J. E. Gray, Ann. and Mag., Nat. Hist., I., (1838,) p. 109. 
