522 — Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
on each side. Eyelids wanting. Spiracles distinct. Branchial openings, 
five, partly over the pectoral fins. 
1. Scyllium cirratum, Gueu. 
Rufous. The young brownish above, and somewhat fawn-colored beneath, marked on 
both surfaces, over the whole of the body and the fins, by small black, rounded spots, not 
closely set, and somewhat regular in their distribution. Spiracles small, just behind the 
eyes. It generally has ten rows of teeth. 
D. (?). P.(?). V.(?). A. (?). ©. (?). Length, 1 to 15 feet. 
Caribbean Sea, Bancrorv. 
Called ‘‘ Nurse,’’ at Jamaica; ‘‘ Gata,’’ at Havana. 
Squalus cirratus, Lin., GMEt. 
oe ce Cirrated Shark, SHaw’s Gen. Zodl., v. p. 344. 
Scyllium cirratum (Gmet.), BaANcrort, Sowerby’s Zodlogical Journal, vy. pp. 82, 86, 415. 
GENUS CEPHALOPTERA, Dumenrit. 
2. Cephaloptera hypostoma, BENNETT. 
Smooth ; mouth beneath; the anterior edge of the pectoral fins declivous. Spiracles sit- 
uated in a groove at the anterior base of the pectorals. 
Length to ventrals, 17 inches; length of tail, 21 inches. Extreme breadth of body, 28 
inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Bancrorr. 
Cephalopterus hypostomus, BeNnNeErrt, Proceedings of Zodlogical Society of London, 1. 1830, 1831, p. 134. 
Ee ‘ ae Sowerby’s Zodlogical Journal, v. p. 411, pl. 50. 
Srvce this paper was prepared for publication, the following spe- 
cies have been discovered, and are described in the “ Proceedings 
of the Boston Society of Natural History.” 
GENUS PRIONOTUS, Cov. 
5. Prionotus pilatus, Storer. 
Above of a reddish brown, beneath yellowish white. The first dorsal fin is crossed by 
two oblique white lines, with a black blotch upon the connecting membrane, between the 
fourth and fifth rays, above the upper oblique line. The entire head is roughened by elevated 
