32 LIST OF FISH. 



11. Scyllium variegatuh. Variegated Dog-fish. 



Scyllium variesratum, Smith, Mull. V Henle, Plag. 14, 1841. 



Smith, I Hunt. Zool. S. Afr. pi. xxv. f. 2, 1849 (female). 

 Poroderma variegatum, Smith, Proe . Zool. Soc. 1837. 



Hais. — Indian Ocean. 



a. Stuffed. (The specimen described and figured in the ' Illustra- 

 tions of the Zoology of South Africa'). Cape Seas. From Dr. 

 A. Smith's collection. 



2. PRISTIDURUS. 



This genus has ail the characters of Scyllium. It is distinguished 

 hy its elongated snout, and by a row of small, fiat prickles on the up- 

 per rim of the tad-fin, which represent a kind of saw. The tail as 

 in Scyllium, but with a trace of an under lobe. The second back- 

 fin over the hinder part of the anal. The nostrils have a short, 

 skinny, triangular flap. The eggs are smooth, as in Scyllium. 



Pristidurns, Bonap. Seine. Tab. Anal. 14, 1838. 



Pristiurus, "Bonap." Mall. $• Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 1838. 



Plagiost. 

 Scyllium, sp. Risso. Bunap. Faun. Ital. 

 Scylliorhinus, sp. Blainv. Hull. Sue. Phil. Jour. 121, 1816. Faun. 



Ft. 

 Galeus, sp., Rafin. Caratt. 



1. Pristidurus melanostojius. Black-mouth Shark. 



Pristiurus melanostomus, Bonap. Faun. Ital. 15. Midi. <$■ Henle, 



Plag. 15. 

 Squalus calulus, Gunner, Drouth, ii. 216, t. 1, 2. 

 Pod haae, Ascan. t. 38. 

 Galeus melasiomus, Rafin. Caratt. 13. 

 Squalus prionurus, Otto. Consp, ■'>. 

 Scvllium Artedi, Risso, Journ. </-• Phys. t. xii. 242. Hist. n. t. iii. 



117, sp. 4. Ichth. 2ed. f. 5. 

 Squalus (Scyllium) annulatus, Nils. Prodr. 114. 

 Black-mouthed Dog-fish, Yarr. ii. 375. 

 Scylliorhinus Delarochianus, Blainv. Faun, Fr. 74, Sp. 10. 

 Scylliorhinus melastomus, Bonap. Fasc. vii. 

 Pristidurns melanostomum, Bonap. Selach. Tab. Anal. 11. 



Hab. — Mediterranean and North Seas. 



