THE 
OCELLATED SHARK. 
Generic Character. 
Spiracu/a five on each fide the neck. 
Body oblong, fomewhat cylindric. 
Mouth fituated beneath in the fore part of the 
head. 
Specific Character, &c. 
SUBFASCIATED SHARK, with duiky fpots, 
and a black ocellated mark on each fide 
above the pedtoral fins. 
Oeille. 
Broujfon. aft. Paris, 1780. p. 66O. n. 10. 
Amongft this voracious and deftrudtive tribe there 
are fome fpccics which poflefs no inconfiderable 
degree of elegance. Of this the fifii here repre- 
fcnted is a remarkable inflance, which, exclufive of 
the general neatncfs of its appearance and the regu¬ 
lar diftribution of its fpots, is diftinguifhed by two 
very large and beautiful round, or rather flightly 
oval black marks, fituated on each fide, immedi¬ 
ately 
