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ing number of large round saffron spots. Pectoral fins with 
a pair of basal golden spots and sometimes a similar central 
spot, and with numerous rather obscure round brown spots; 
ventrals also dark-spotted; (tigrinus, resembling a tiger, 
in allusion to its striped body). 
Total length to 360 centimeters; said to attain 450. 
From the Red Sea and the East Coast of Africa, through 
all the Indian Seas northward to Formosa, and eastward 
through Malaysia to New Guinea and Eastern Australia, 
large examples occasionally straggling southward even so 
far as the Port Jackson District. 
The Zebra Shark is a peculiarly handsome species, which, 
notwithstanding the large size to which it grows, is quite 
harmless to man; its food consists almost wholly of crus- 
taceans and mollusks, and it is therefore possible that the 
adult fishes may be capable of doing considerable damage 
on the pearl-oyster beds in places where they are plentiful; 
they are, however, too scarce in Queensland waters to 
cause any apprehension on thisaccount. The young sharks 
frequent shallow bays and inlets, but as they increase in 
size they gradually retire into deeper water. 
Described from a specimen 500 millimeters long, captured 
off the Little Mulgrave River, and presented to the State 
Museum by Mr. Archibald Meston, Reg. No. D. 7057. The 
only other Australian examples recorded are the two from 
the Port Jackson district, and the young Cape York speci- 
men, all of which are in the Australian Museum, Sydney, 
and a fetal example from Normanton, presented to the 
A.F.A.Q. Museum, by Mr. W. Hamilton. 
A fine egg-case of this species with the contained embryo 
has recently been received by the Trustees of the Australian 
Museum from Mr. J. Ross Smith who obtained it from 
some natives at Dobbo, Aroo Islands. The case, which 
measures 110 mm. in length by 65 mm. in breadth, is oblong 
