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" Spiracle wide behind the eyes. Nostrils with 

 skinny flaps on the margin of the snout. Teeth 

 conical, pointed, distant. Dorsal fins without 

 spines on the tail ; no anal. 



"Temperate and tropical seas." 



One single genus formed by Durneril. 

 EHINA. 



EHIKA SQTTATIK'A. 



Squatina Bellon, Be Aquat, p. 78. 



Squalus Squatina, Lin. Si/st. Nat., vol. i., p, 396. 



(Angel Shark.) 



I have no means of comparing this fish with the European 

 form, but it is admitted that they are similar. 



The colour is of a light chesnut, with some rounded whitish 

 spots on the pectorals and ventrals ; the fins are bordered with 

 pink ; the lower parts of the body are white, with a rosy tinge. 



The colours are different from those of Bloch's plate ; but 

 they agree well with Risso's description. These two authors state 

 that the back is covered with large acute tubercles. In the 

 smallest Australian specimens, the dorsal tubercles are very 

 small, and similar to the others, of the upper surface of the body ; 

 but in the larger ones, they are considerably larger, and at the 

 base of the tail, in frout of the first dorsal, they become arched 

 spines. The teeth are on one single line, when Eisso states 

 that in the European fish they are on three ; but Bloch says 

 that in his specimens (one foot long) the teeth are on three 

 series at the upper jaw and on two on the lower, and adds that the 

 lines of teeth increase with age, and this is probable, as my 

 specimens are only seven to nine inches in length, and are 

 evidently very young. 



I have seen three specimens at the Melbourne Market in the 

 months of November and December, 



