FISHES COLLECTED IN JAPAN. 285 



Diengkitsch observed that at Osaka it is called cog-owoo, which signifies rowing or paddling 

 fish. Whoever has looked at a live box-fish in water would agree that this name was quite 

 appropriate. 



61. TRIAKIS SCYLUUM, M. and H. 



Triakis scylliem, Midler and Henle ; Beschreib. der Plagiostomen, p. 63, pL 26. 

 Watt's shark, Latham, Phillips' voy. to Botany Bay, 1789, p. 285, and plate. 



PLATE XII, fig. 1. Male reduced. 



Notes. — From Simoda, (4 feet, Sa-ine.) 



Of this curious fish but one specimen was brought home by Mr. Biirger, which is now in the 

 museum at Leyden, and on it Messrs. Miiller and Henle founded a new sub-family, genus and 

 species. Mr. Gerrard, in his list of Chondropterygii of the British Museum, 1851, p. 55, 

 enumerates this and another species, the T. Califomica, from a foetal specimen procured 

 n California, but without adding any description. A dried skin of the T. Scyllium was brought 

 home by a member of the United States Expedition, and is now in Philadelphia. It seems to 

 have escaped the notice of the above naturalists, who quote the next species from Governor 

 Phillips' voyage, that this one is also figured there, from a female, and described as Watt's 

 shark in the same work. The figure there given resembles the one now published so nearly in 

 form that there can be no doubt of their identity, though Phillips' seems to have annular spots, 

 arranged in regular series. 



The colors are, brownish slate above, and rather purplish below, blotched and clouded with 

 dark brown on body and fins in an irregular manner. Throat and abdomen white. Irides 

 yellow. The two appendages on the anterior part of the snout are longer than the others, and 

 have a short branch on the outside of their base. Behind those, on each side, are three pair of 

 shorter barbels. Some of these appear in another sketch to have short branches also. Eyes 

 oval. Nostrils not indicated. Large spiracles behind and below the eyes. Branchial openings 

 large, and above base of pectorals. Pectorals set far back, broad and heavy. Dorsals close 

 together, and behind the ventrals, which last are large and broad. Male appendages long. 

 Anal below and behind the second dorsal. Lobes of caudal small, with deep indentation near 

 the end of the upper one. The figure in the voyage de la Coquille does not indicate this feature. 



62. HETERODONTUS PHILLIPPI. 



Port Jackson shark, Latham, Phillip's voyage, ed. 4to. 283, and plate. 

 Heterodontus Phillippi, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil., 121, (1816.) 



" Phillippi, Gerrard, List offish, &c, pt 1, p. 66. 



Cestracion Phillippi, Cuvier, P. A., 3d ed., II., 391, (1829.) 



" Phillippi, Lesson, (1830,) Duperrey. Voy. II., pt. 1, 97 Poiss., pi. 2. 



" Phillippi, J. E. Gray, Ann. and Mag., Nat. Hist., I., (1838,) p. 109. 



