152 PORBEAGLE SHARK. Class IV. 



end is blunt; the holes behind the eyes are 

 small ; the back is less flat than that of others 

 of this genus ; the first back fin is placed mid- 

 way above the pectoral and ventral fins ; the 

 pectoral fins are small ; the tail forked, but the 

 upper part is much the longest ; the teeth re- 

 semble those of a Ray, rough and sharp. The 

 color of the back and sides ash, and free from 

 spots ; the belly silvery. 



H.Porbea- Squalus cornubiensis. Sq. plica Goodenough in Lin. Tr. iii. 



GLE * longitudinali ad utrumque 80. tab. 15. 



caudaelatus. Gm. Lin. 1497. Le Squale long-nez. De la 



The Porbeagle. Borlase Corn- Cepe.de Hist, des Poissons. 



wall, 265. Tab. 26. Shaw i. 2\6. tab. 2. Jig. 3. ? 

 Gen. Zool. v. part ii. p. 

 349- 



XHE figure of this fish, engraved after a draw- 

 ing by the Rev. Mr. Jago* is preserved in 

 Doctor Borlase' s Natural History of Cornwall. 

 As it is not attended with any account farther 



* This gentleman was minister of Loo, in Cornwall, and ap- 

 pears to have been well acquainted with the History of Fishes. 

 He communicated figures of several of the Cornish fishes, with a 

 brief account of each, to Petiver, at whose instance, as Doctor 

 Der/iam tells us, in the preface to Mr. Ray's Itineraries, p. 6q, 

 he added them to the Synopsis avium et piscium, p. 162. A few 

 others of his drawings are also preserved in the Natural History 

 of Cornwall, and seem to be executed with skill and accuracy. 



