1915] Gudger : The Whale Shark. 369 



The occurrence of Rhineodo7i in the Java Sea is recorded by 

 Van Kampen in 1908. On May 7 fishermen harpooned in Ba- 

 tavia Bay and brought to the fish market in Batavia a specimen 

 5.75 metres long (about nineteen feet) . Van Kampen dissected 

 this specimen but gives no account whatever of its internal 

 organs. 



Weber (1913) relates that Van Kampen showed him a beau- 

 tiful photograph of a specimen which he thinks was probably 

 caught in Madura Strait (north coast of Java) and photo- 

 graphed while fresh in the harbor of Surabaia. Unfortunately 

 Van Kampen does not seem to have written up this specimen. 



Dr. H. M. Smith in 1909, in an interesting paper entitled 

 ''Some Giant Fish of the Seas," gives only general data but a 

 fine picture of the Whale Shark in the act of diving. Two years 

 later before the Biological Society of Washington he made known 

 the occurrence of this fish in the Philippine waters. His report, 

 as it appears in the Proceedings (1911) will now be sum- 

 marized. 



In the issue of the Philippine Free Press of September 10, 

 1910, there is published a photograph with brief description of 

 a marine monster from one of the islands, Negros Occidental 

 by name. Throughout the article the animal is called a whale, 

 but the photograph shows it to be a Whale Shark. It was about 

 eighteen feet in length and was caught in a fish trap near Baco- 

 lod on September 4, 1910. This is the first capture, so far as 

 known, that has been made in the waters of our western pos- 

 sessions. 



Notices of the notes by the present writer (1913), Dr. Smith 

 (1913) and Dr. Townsend (1913), on the Miami, Florida, speci- 

 men of 1912, have already been given in the first section of 

 this paper, and need not be repeated here. 



It seems that in The Fishing Gazette (London) early in May, 

 1913, there was published a reproduction of one of the postcard 

 figures of the Miami specimen with a lot of nonsense about its 

 being an unknown and unclassifiable monster. In the issue of 

 that journal for May 24, Mr. C. Tate Regan of the British Mu- 

 seum replies in an interesting little article under the heading 

 "The Largest Shark." In this he gives some brief quotations 



