818 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. yoi,. xxviii. 



MUsukurina owxtoni, collected for Alan Owston, of Yijkoliauia, Japan, February 26, 

 1903, l)etween Umezawa and Mayegawa, near Kosu, Sagami Bay, Japan, at a depth 

 of from 150 to 200 fathoms. Pnrciiased through Dr. i). 8. Jordan. 



The cut from a photoj^raph 1)}^ Mr. Sniillie gives a veiy good idea of 

 the appearance of this shark when received in Washing-ton; it was 

 preserved in foi'nialin and reached us frozen quite stiff. The taxider- 

 mist, Mr. Turner, says the skin is in good condition for mounting. 

 1 understand from recent truvehMs to fhipan that Mr. Owston has a 

 good series of this shark on hand, ranging in length from 4 to 10 feet. 



For the purpose of comparison Plate XXA'I from volume 26 of the 

 Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum is here reproduced so that 

 the reader ma}" readily see for himself the difference between the 

 specimens of the young and the adult (ioldin Shark. 



KIP.LKXiRAPHY. 



JoKDAX, David Stark. Description of a species of Fish {Mitxukurina on-stoni) from 

 Japan, the tyi)e of a distinct family of Lamnoid Sharks. 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 3d ser., Zool., I, pp. 199-204, pis. xi-xii. San Fran- 

 cisco, California, 1898. 

 Woodward, A. Smitii. Note nn ScaiKiiiorln/nfJiiis, a Cretaceims Shark aiijiarently 

 surviving in Japanese Seas. 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), III, London, 1899, pp. 487-489. 

 Jordan, David Starr, and Sxydeu, .Iohn Otterbein. A preliminary Check List of 

 the Fishes of Ja])an. "^ 



Annotationes Zoologic;e Japonenscs, III, partes 11 and III, p. 40. Tokyo, 

 April 3, 1901. 

 Jordan, David Starr, and Fowler, Henry W. Review of the Elasmobranchiate 

 Fishes of Japan. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, 1903, pp. (i20-622, 2 pis. 

 Dean, Bashb^ord. Additional specimens of the Japanese Shark, Mitsnlnrina. 



Science, new ser., XVII, April 17, 1903, i)p. 630-631. 

 Bridoe, T. \V. 



The C!and)ridge, Xat. Hist., VII, p. 452. London, 1904. 

 Jordan, David Starr, and Snyder, John Otterbein. On a collection of fishes made 

 by yir. Alan Owston in the deep waters of Japan. 



Smitiisonian Misc. Coll. (Qr. issue), I, Parts III and IV, April 11, 1904, p. 234. 



