Class IV. BEAUMARIS SHARK. 155 



ing* made from the fish taken in a neighboring 

 wear. 



The length Avas seven feet; the snout and Descrip- 



° # i TION. 



body of a cylindrical form ; the greatest cir- 

 cumference four feet eight inches ; the nose 

 blunt; the nostrils small; the mouth armed 

 with three rows of slender teeth, f flatted on 

 each side, very sharp, and furnished at the 

 base with two sharp processes ; the teeth are 

 fixed to the jaws by certain muscles, and are 

 liable to be raised or depressed at pleasure. 

 The first dorsal fin was two feet eight inches 

 distant from the snout, of a triangular form ; 

 the second very small, and placed near the tail ; 

 the pectoral fins strong and large ; the ventral 

 and anal small ; the space between the second 

 dorsal fin and the tail much depressed, the 

 sides forming an acute angle ; above and below 

 was a transverse fossule or dent. The tail was 

 in the form of a crescent, but the horns of un- 

 equal lengths ; the upper, one foot ten inches ; 

 the lower,, one foot one inch.^ The whole fish 



* This drawing is now in the possession of the Editor, and cor- 

 responds exactly with the original plate, notwithstanding the 

 unqualified assertion made by a recent writer, of its " having 

 been injudiciously altered, to the fancy of the artist or the en- 

 graver." Ed. 



f These teeth are often found fossil, and are styled by Lluyd, 

 Ornithoglossum, from their resemblance to a bird's tongue. 



% Doctor Shaw in his valuable work on General Zoology, vol. 



