454 
SEL.VCHTI. 
Type. Detached teeth ; Palaeontological MuHcum, Jfiinich. 
A species of moderate size. Teeth broad, gently ohliciue, often 
erect, finely serrated. 
Form. ^ Tjoc. Miocene ; Malta, Austria, (?) Sicily, Italy, France, 
and Maryland, U.S.A.' 
Some of the following teeth have narrow crowns, with non-ser- 
riited edges, and are quite indistinguishahlo from those of the typical 
Aprionodoa ; occurring, however, in the same beds as those named 
Sphyrna prisai auA S. serrata,ii'^oy are provisionally catalogued hero. 
P. 1232. Ten teeth, mostly imperfect ; Malta. Eyerton Coll. 
P. 2340. Five imperfect teeth ; Malta. Enniskillen Coll. 
P.1223. Eight teeth ; Neudorfl-a.-d.-March, Vienna. Eyerton Coll. 
P. 2339, P. 2341. Nino teeth, some imperfect; Noudorfl. 
Enniskillen Coll. 
28360. Four abraded teeth, of very similar form and proportions ; 
Faluns of Touraine. Furchased, 1853. 
41336. Very similar perfect tooth ; Maryland. Purchased, 1809. 
The following tooth is also probably referable to Sjihyrna, of a 
larger species than S. prisca : — 
P. 4501 b. Perfect tooth ; Pliocene, Antibes, Franco. 
Presented hy Miss Batiershy, 1883. 
The following very doubtful species are also founded upon 
detached teeth, of which there are no examples in the Collection : — 
Sjdiyrna inteyra, J. Probst, Wiirtt. .Jahresh. vol. xxxiv. (1878), 
p. 152, pi. i. figs. 40, 47.— Molasso; lialtringen, Wiir- 
temberg. 
Sphyma Icevis, J. Probst, tom.cit. p. 153, pi. i. fig. 48. — Molasse; 
lialtringen. 
Sphyrna lata, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. vol. iii. (1843), p. 235, 
pi. x.xvi. fi. figs. 58, 59. Form. & loo. unknown 
' Teeth arc also assigned to this epecie.s by R. W. Gibbos, Jourii. Aead. Nat. 
Sei. I’hilail. [2] vol. i. (1819), p. 191, pi, xxv. figs. 88-90, from the Kocene of 
South Carolina; and by R. Lawley, Nuovi Studi Pesoi, etc. Colliuo Toscano 
(1870), p. 17. 
* Doubtful teeth are assigned to this species by P. M. Pudroni, Aotes Soo. 
Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xiii. (1844), p. 284, pi. i. figs. 17, 18 ; R. W. Qibbes, Journ. 
Acad. Nat. Sei. Philad. [2] vol. i. (1849), p. 19.5, pi. xxv. figs. 91-93 ; and by 
G. G. Gonimellaro, Atti Accad. Oioenia Sei. Nat. [2] vol. xiii, (18.57), p. 290, 
pi. vi. O', fig. 10 a. Also hy R. Lawley, Nuovi Studi Pesci, etc. Colline Toscane 
(1876), p. 17. 
