FISHES. CHONDROPTERIGIOUS. 68- Squalus. 919 
Upper iaw with 2 cirri ; tail long. 
Head obtulc ; nojlrils near the mouth ; Jpiracles 4. 
^Ppendi. Upper jaw 'with 2 jagged, cartilaginous appendages, and-t 
^^Utus others each fide between the hrll and the fpiracles, 
’ Botany-Bay S. 
Inhabits Nm i^oalh Wales 19 inches long; body brown, 
with 3 rows of large pale fpots, dark witiiin ; rounded and 
nearly equal for half its length, and then growing fudderdy 
fmall ; is very fierce. Phillifs Botany Bay. 
Head broad, angular ; mouth near the end of the head ; tetih 
0 in front, lharp, crocjked, in 3 rows, with a great num- 
ber of finall ones each fide ; eyes prqjeamg ; dorfat fins 
placed far back ; />efZorai; near the fpiraclcs ; ventral near the 
middle of the body ; anal more than half way between the 
laft and the tail, with a fin-like projeaion behind it to the 
end of the tail. 
B. the anal fin, lut no temporal orifice. 
Sides of the tail fraooth ; lower part of the back with a 
triangular dent. * 
Inhabits almofi every fea: 3—14 feet long; body above fine 
blue, beneath filvery-white ; is very fierce and rapacious, 
clpecially in warm climates. _ 
f/ead a little deprefl'ed ; eyes fmail, voimdiih, ins yellowifir- 
w'hitc; teeth nearly triangular, long, fliarp, not ferrate, in- 
clinin'' downwards and backwards; oenf near the tail ; dor- 
fal fiw glaucous, the firll behind the ventral and nearly 
triangular, the other lefs, behind and equal to the anal which 
is white; peBoral large, \on^, emarginate, and with the 
ventral above glaucous, beneath white; tail glaucous, a- 
lobed, the upper lobe 3 times as long as the lower. 
nout projeaing, lharp ; body round, depreffed and angu- 
late near the tail. Probeagle A, 
Inhabits the Britijh coafts ; 2 ? — 4 feet long ; body above deep 
blue, beneath w hite or filvery, round, ex'cept near the tail, 
where it is deprellcd. 
Each fide from the noft to the eyes numerous minute pores ; eyes 
large, pupil blackj kh vehdte-, /piracies 5, placed in a regu- 
lar feries ; noflrils lunar ; mouth lemicircular 5 “Pper jaw 
with 2 rows of teeth, the 2 middle ones in front handing lin- 
gle, lower jaw w'ith- 2 rows, the middle ones in front with a 
