NEW SOUTH WALES, 
Genus CXXXI. Sqiialus. — Li-n. Syji. 
W A T T s's Shark. 
ThiSj we believe, is a Ipecies which has hitherto 
efcaped the refearches of our Icfthyologifts. The length 
of the fpecimen is nineteen inches : the head is broad, and 
angular in fliape ; but the body rounded, and nearly 
equal in its dimeniions for above half the length, when 
it fuddenly grows very fmall, and fo continues to the end 
of the tail : the colour of the body is brown in diffe- 
rent fliades, and there are three rows of large pale 
fpots, of an irregular fliape, mofl of them dark, within ; 
one row paffes down the middle, the others are on each 
Ude ; befides which there are others below them lefs con- 
fpicuous. The mouth is placed nearer the end of the head 
than in moft of the genus, and furnilhed in the front v/ith 
nine £harp crooked teeth, in three rows, and a great number 
of fmall ones on each lide.. The eyes proje6t conliderably 
above the reft of the head, and are placed on the upper 
part of it ; the fpace between is hollowed or funk in : at 
the moft forward part of the head are two cartilaginous 
appendages, jagged at the end, with four others, nearly 
limilar, on each ftde between the flrft and the breath- 
ing holes : the peroral fins are placed beneath thefe 
9 laft. |. 
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C H A P, 
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