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EHINID^. 
“ Spiracle wide beliind 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 Dumeril. 
EHINA. 
BHINA SQTTATIFA. 
Squatina Bellon, De Aquat, p. 78. 
Squalus Squatina, Lin. Syst. 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 Eisso’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 surfiice of the body ; 
but in the larger ones, they are considerably larger, and at the 
base of the tail, in front 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. 
