gated and terminating obtufely. This fpecies feems 
not very diftincftly defcribed by modern authors; 
but it is certainly the fpecies figured in Johnfton’s 
Hiftory of Animals published in the lafl century, 
at plate 12 of the fillies, fig. 6; who gives a very 
brief defeription of it, and calls it Squatina or Meer- 
Engel, and feems to confound it with a very diffe¬ 
rent fpecies, viz. the Monk-Fifh, which is figured 
on plate 11 of the fame work. 
