28 PROF. T.J. PARKER ON CARCHARODON RONDELETII. [Jan. 18, 



Specimen D. — Female, 1/ ft. (about 5 metres) long. The second 

 specimen referred to in the preceding paragraph was caught about 

 a fortnight later than the first, and was also brought entire to 

 Dunediu for exhibition. The funds of the museum would not allow 

 of its purchase, and indeed my assistants were at the time so fully 

 occupied with the preparation of the larger specimen, that it would 

 have been impossible for them to undertake a second task of similar 

 magnitude ; so that all I could do was to be present when, on the 

 third day after capture, the viscera were removed, and to make some 

 notes on those organs which were too much decomposed in the 

 former specimen. 



Specimen E. — Foetus (female), 55 cm. long. For this I am 

 indebted to Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. 



I may also mention that, as I am informed by my friend Prof. A. 

 P. Thomas, a specimen of Carcharodon, fully 30 ft. long, was caught 

 at Auckland a few mouths ago. It would seem, therefore, that in 

 spite of its apparent scarcity in museums, Carcharodon rondeletii 

 must be a tolerably common species in the Southern Seas. 



1. External Characters. 



As the small specimen described by Smith, in his ' Zoology of 

 South Africa,' appears to be the only one of which careful measure- 

 ments have been taken, it seems advisible to give a fairly complete 

 series of measurements of specimen C, the largest which has come 

 under my notice. 



centim. 

 Total length from tip of snout to tip of upper lobe of 



tail-fin (following the curve) 577 



Total length in a straight line 552 



From tip of snout to 1st dorsal fin (anterior border) 202 

 From tip of snout to anterior border of pectoral fin . . 155 

 From posterior border of pectoral to anterior border 



of pelvic fin 1 52 



From posterior border of pelvic to anterior border of 



ventral (anal) fin 60*8 



From posterior border of ventral (anal) to root of 



caudal fin 40*4 



Girth immediately cephalad of 1st dorsal fin 296 



Height of first dorsal fin 45-6 



Breadth „ ,, at base 53 



Height of second dorsal fin 7 



Breadth „ „ at base 8 



Length of pectoral fin, along anterior border 103 



Breadth „ „ at base 58 



Length of pelvic fin, along outer border 30 



„ „ „ inner border 41 



Breadth „ „ at base 19 



Height of ventral (anal) fin • 11 



Breadth „ „ „ at base 9 



