GILBERT AND STARKS — FISHES OF PANAMA HAY 9 



This species is known as yet only from the Hay of Panama. Like G. callfov- 

 nicu!<, from which it dilTers widely in other respects, it has the young attached to the 

 oviduct hy a placenta. The three specimens obtained i)y this expedition are all 

 females; one of them contains well develoiJed young. 



4. Galeocerdo tigrinus M idler li- Ifenle. 



Recorded from I'anama i)y Jordan and JJolIman (1<SS0, p. 170), their speci- 

 men having been collected by the "Albatross." The species was not seen by the 

 authors. 



5. Carcharias aethalorus Jonhin 1- Gilhart. 



Abundant at Panama, where it is used as food though not highly prized. 

 Small specimens only were seen. In a male about 90 cm. long, the claspers are very 

 small, not reaching margin of ventrals. The teeth of both jaws are distinctly serrate 

 in these young examples, the serme growing coarser towards base, equally present 

 on the two margins. The interspace between dorsals is 5 to (i times base of 

 second dorsal (excluding the Hesliy ridge before fin), and the base of anal consider- 

 ably less than (1| in) its distance from caudal. In other respects the Panama 

 specimens answer well the original description. 



6. Carcharias velox (Gilbert). 



Plate I, Fu;. .S. 

 Carchaiinus velox, Gilbert, Jordan & Evermann, 1S98, p. 2747. 



Distinguishable from other known sharks of the Pacific coast of America by the excessively 

 long, slender, acute snout, the slender body, and the very long caudal fin. 



Preoral portion of snout slightly more than i| times width of mouth, 5 times distance 

 between nostrils, i| times width of snout opposite outer angles of nostrils, \\ times intero'-bital 

 width, 2| times distance from chin to line joining angles of mouth. Nostrils transverse in position, 

 the inner angle nearer mouth than tip of snout by a distance slightly less than length of nostril. Front 

 of eye equidistant from nostril and front of mouth, the middle of eye nearer angle of mouth than 

 nostril; diameter of eye less than nostril, slightly more than half longest gill-slit. Snout very porous. 

 Folds at angle of mouth slightly longer than usual. Gill-slits rather wide, the middle slit i| times 

 diameter of orbit. 



Teeth of lower jaw very narrow, erect, very minutely serrulate, appearing entire except with 

 the lens. The species thus represents a transition between Carcharias and the alleged genus 

 Hyfioprion. Teeth in ui)[)er jaw very oblique, wide at base, with a deep notch on outer margin, the 

 terminal cusp rather narrowly triangular. 



Pectoral broadly falcate, the anterior margin convex, the distal edge concave, both angles 

 rounded. Tip of pectoral reaching a short distance beyond base of first dorsal. Anterior margin 

 of jjectoral 2| times the posterior (inner) margin, about i^ times the distal edge. First dorsal 

 inserted about the diameter of orbit behind a vertical from axil of pectoral; nearer pectoral, therefore, 

 than ventral. The anterior margin is concave basally, convex on di.stal half, the anterior angle 

 rounded. The free margin is concave, largely owing to the much jjroduced acute posterior lobe. 

 The vertical height exceeds the length of the base; the anterior lobe very high, extentling beyond 

 tip of posterior when the fin is declined, equaling j length of anterior margin of pectoral. Posterior 

 margin of first dorsiil 3', in the anterior margin. Base of first dorsal contained 2i times in interspace 



